Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Interpretation
Experiencing beauty and freedom can change your perspective on life.
This quote by Leonardo Da Vinci expresses the transformative nature of experiencing something extraordinary, like flight. Once someone has experienced such a liberating and awe-inspiring event, their outlook on life shifts, leading them to constantly yearn for that sense of freedom and beauty again, thus walking with their 'eyes turned skywards'.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
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.
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.
If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself.
We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.
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