Elif Shafak Quotes
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.
Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.
People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.-Three Daughters of Eve
we are all half fool, half wise, there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .
If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.
Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process
There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.
Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other's feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies - think notThat we are only what we see.
That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows.
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.
Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.
Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.
Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.
