Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
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.
Interpretation
True love is rooted in deep understanding of the person you love.
This quote by Leonardo Da Vinci highlights the importance of knowledge in love. The more you understand and appreciate someone, the deeper your capacity for love will be. Conversely, superficial knowledge can lead to superficial affection, thus suggesting that genuine love requires a profound connection and understanding of the beloved.
In practice
In a wedding speech, to emphasize the importance of understanding in a loving relationship.
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.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.
If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
In the hope to meet_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
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