Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Interpretation
Determination can help overcome any challenge.
This quote by Leonardo Da Vinci emphasizes the power of unwavering determination and strong will in the face of obstacles. It suggests that with a focused and resolute mindset, one can conquer any difficulties that arise, highlighting the importance of perseverance and commitment to one's goals.
In practice
This quote can inspire students facing academic challenges to remain focused.
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.
I feel as fit as a bull moose.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
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