Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of hope in shaping our thoughts and actions.
Leonardo Da Vinci suggests that hope plays a crucial role in directing our thoughts and aspirations. It is through hope that we find the motivation to pursue our goals and overcome challenges, as it encourages a positive perspective and the belief in a better future.
In practice
In a speech about resilience after a setback.
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.
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
Excellent warriors are not violent.
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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