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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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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
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- 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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- 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
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- 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
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
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- 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
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- 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
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- 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
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- 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
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- 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
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
- 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
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
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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