
“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
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.”
Source: My Name is Red
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.”
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.”
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.”
"Put A Little Love In Your Heart" (1968); written with Jimmy Holiday and Randy Myers
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.”
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)
"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)