“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
Variant: If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk
“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
Halford E. Luccock (1885–1960) American Methodist minister
Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)
Context: We ought to recognize that uncertainty of mind is not all a bad thing. It is a sign that your mind is still alive, still sensitive. If you are not at all confused in this day you are dead mentally and spiritually.
There is of course the peace of the cemetery. If you want that you can have it. But you will pay for such complacent serenity with blind eyes which do not see the world's fear and agony; with deaf ears, into which the still sad music of humanity never comes; with deadened nerves and unsensitized conscience.
We will never be brought to confusion, even in such a baffling and muddled world as ours, if we have a faith in a God of love as the ultimate power in the universe. The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Aeneas, Act I, scene i, line 149
Dido (c. 1586)
“Another day goes by
Still the children cry
Put a little love in your heart.”
Jackie DeShannon (1941) American singer-songwriter
"Put A Little Love In Your Heart" (1968); written with Jimmy Holiday and Randy Myers
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
the exhaustion will be lifted, and you will be able to listen still more. Yes, love must be communicated person to person; otherwise it will not be effective.
Molchanie (1982)
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Great hymn of thanksgiving" [Grosser Dankchoral] (1920) from The Devotions (1922-1927); trans. Karl Neumann in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 74
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)