Top 31 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.

 

İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.

 

If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual. Nothing unmanageable. If a stone hits a lake, however, the lake will never be the same again.

 

…for love loves power. That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.

 

Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.

 

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

 

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I’ve read a book, I don’t feel like I’ve finished anything. So I start a new one.

 

May love always be with you, and you always surrounded by love

 

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

 

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.

 

Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden – as you have seen.

 

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.

 

To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

 

What is the point of roaming the world when it’s the same misery everywhere?

 

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

 

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.

 

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

 

How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

 

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

 

There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.“By giving us more work, of course.

 

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

 

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.

 

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

 

we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

 

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

 

People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.-Three Daughters of Eve

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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