Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
Interpretation
Personal experience is more reliable than advice from others.
This quote by Leonardo Da Vinci emphasizes the importance of firsthand experience in shaping our understanding and decision-making. While others may offer guidance and perspectives, it's our own experiences that provide the most valuable insights and lessons, leading us to a deeper understanding of life and its complexities.
In practice
During a motivational talk about personal growth.
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.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.
We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Iβve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
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