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While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been
and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The truth of things is the chief nutriment
of superior intellects.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter
in the representation of visible things,
and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Gratitude is the prayer,
while Celebration is the song and the dance of praise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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