“Love turns work into rest.”

“And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,
Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest… my blood… my compass… my love…”

Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter

“The man who truly loves his work returns to it after the briefest rest with a curious kind of voluptuousness. When he is completely absorbed in his job, the end of work seems like the end of life.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

“‎A change of work is the best rest.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

“To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

“I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

“To lose and to hold tightly,
To love and take delight in,
To gaze upon and contemplate,
To possess utterly,
To float in that immensity
And to rest therein --
That is the work of unceasing exchange
Of charity and truth.”

Jacopone da Todi (1236–1306) Italian Franciscan mystic

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician