Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Interpretation
Taking breaks from work allows for clearer judgment and improved focus when returning.
Leonardo Da Vinci emphasizes the importance of occasional breaks and relaxation in enhancing productivity and clarity of thought. By stepping away from work for a brief period, individuals can return to their tasks with renewed perspective and sharper judgment, thus improving the quality of their output.
In practice
During a team meeting, one could remind colleagues of the importance of taking breaks to enhance creativity.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Iβm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
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