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.
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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