Elif Shafak Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.
There is no together anymore. Once a pomegranate breaks and all its seeds scatter in differetnt directions, you cannot put it back together.
(T)here are friendships in this world that seem incomprehensible to ordinary people, but are in fact conduits to deeper wisdom and insight.
And were you able to find Him?" I inquired.
A shadow crossed his face as the dervish noded and said.
"Indeed, He was with me all along.
A shadow crossed his face as the dervish noded and said.
"Indeed, He was with me all along.
But now she wasn't sure if she could concentrate on a subject as irrelevant to her life as Sufism and a time as distant as the thirteenth century.
But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ...
Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first "feamle" and only then "writers".
That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.
The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh.
Sanity was a promised land, the Shangri-la she had been deported from as a teenager, and to which she intended to return to one day.
What difference did it make whether they were hurt or happy, right or wrong, when the sun rose and the moon waned just the same, with or without them?
Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.
There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.
If only humans could live exposed to the skies, open and unafraid, watching the stars and being watched by them, with nothing to hide.
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.
Beyond wildest dreams, strange things happened to people when they were ready for the unusual and the unexpected.
The Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind.
But Istanbul is a city of easy forgettings. Things are written in water over there, except the works of my master, which are written in stone.
It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.
When asked his name, he introduced himself as Shams of Tabriz and said he was a wandering dervish searching for God high and low.
If you want to destroy something, be it a blemish, acne or the human soul, all you need to do is surround it with walls.
Only humans have consciousness. It's divine order. That's why Allah hold us humans responsible fir our behavior.
Religious people are so confident of having God by their side that they think they are superior to everyone else
(N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place?
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.
Once there was, once there wasn't, God's creature were as plentiful as grains and talking too much was a sin.
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.
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.
Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love.
On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you.
Be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses
Whatever you do, she would have said, don't hurt anyone and don't let anyone hurt you. Be neither a heartbreaker nor heartbroken.
Love is the water of life. Lover is a soul of fire.
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water,
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water,
In an age of deeply embedded bigotries and clashes, he stood for a universal spirituality, opening his doors to people of all backgrounds.
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for me.