“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist
Shannon
His full response supposedly made to Margaret Thatcher when she informed him she would be standing against him for the Conservative leadership in 1975. Attributed to him in his Daily Telegraph obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1494246/Sir-Edward-Heath.html (18 July 2005), although disputed by Heath's autobiography. <br class="br">Disputed
“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist
Shannon
“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Keith Baxter interviewed by Geoff Andrew for the British Film Institute (on the only piece of direction Welles ever gave him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON_f32HQDk
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
Context: Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.
What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.
“If I lose control, you'll be the first to know."
"I'm quite perturbed by the idea.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar