Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
Interpretation
Align your work with your life's purpose for fulfillment.
This quote by Leonardo Da Vinci emphasizes the importance of ensuring that our efforts and pursuits are in harmony with our overarching life purpose. By aligning our work with what we are truly passionate about and what gives us meaning, we can achieve a sense of fulfillment and contribute more effectively to the world around us.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students to follow their passions.
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.
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.
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