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.
'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
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