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Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
— Elif Shafak
Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird.
— Elif Shafak
The past is anything but bygone
— Elif Shafak
I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.
— Elif Safak
There is no together anymore. Once a pomegranate breaks and all its seeds scatter in differetnt directions, you cannot put it back together.
— Elif Shafak
Don't underestimate the good in you
— Elif Shafak
(T)here are friendships in this world that seem incomprehensible to ordinary people, but are in fact conduits to deeper wisdom and insight.
— Elif Shafak
For the same reason, he believed that love had nothing to do with "plans for tomorrow" or "memories of yesterday." Love could only be here and now.
— Elif Shafak
As well. One of them was quite pesky, insisting
— Elif Shafak
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. — Elif Shafak
A shadow crossed his face as the dervish noded and said.
"Indeed, He was with me all along. — Elif Shafak
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
— Elif Safak
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.
— Elif Shafak
But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ...
— Elif Shafak
Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.
— Elif Shafak
The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
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?
— Elif Shafak
Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.
— Elif Shafak
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
— Elif Shafak
In an age of deeply embedded bigotries and clashes, he stood for a universal spirituality, opening his doors to people of all backgrounds.
— Elif Shafak
Rebelliousness is not a good quality in a novice.
— Elif Shafak
Love can only be perfected in pain.
— Elif Shafak
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
— Elif Shafak
Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.
— Elif Shafak
No eye sees so clear and sharp as the eye of love.
— Elif Shafak
How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?
— Elif Safak
Love is the reason. Love is the goal.
— Elif Shafak
I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for me.
— Elif Shafak
It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
— Elif Shafak
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
— Elif Safak
Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to.
— Elif Shafak
It's odd how faces, solid and visible as they are, evaporate, while words, made of breath, stay.
— Elif Shafak
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
— Elif Shafak
People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.
-Three Daughters of Eve — Elif Shafak
-Three Daughters of Eve — Elif Shafak
We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
An aura surrounds every living thing, an aura in a different colour each time. Do you know what colour is yours?
— Elif Shafak
In love all boundaries are blurred.
— Elif Shafak
Only humans have consciousness. It's divine order. That's why Allah hold us humans responsible fir our behavior.
— Elif Shafak
Be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses
— Elif Shafak
Whatever you do, she would have said, don't hurt anyone and don't let anyone hurt you. Be neither a heartbreaker nor heartbroken.
— Elif Shafak
Deep inside, Ella blamed herself. She hadn't aged well
— Elif Shafak
Love is the water of life. Lover is a soul of fire.
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water, — Elif Shafak
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water, — Elif Shafak
How amazing was this ability to achieve plenty by achieving little, to go home empty-handed yet still satisfied at the end of the day!
— Elif Shafak
A broken heart hides treasures." As
— Elif Shafak
Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.
— Elif Shafak
An amazing sight, someone you're infatuated with trying to fish something out of a jeans pocket.
— Elif Batuman
Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.
— Elif Shafak
Tragedy was a commodity like any other. it was meant to be consumed- individually and collectively.
— Elif Shafak
Beyond wildest dreams, strange things happened to people when they were ready for the unusual and the unexpected.
— Elif Shafak
We're all what we are. And we're all subject to change. It is a journey from here to there.
— Elif Shafak
About the great preacher. I wanted to see him through foreign eyes, kind and unkind, loving and unloving, before I looked on him with my own.
— Elif Shafak
The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.
— Elif Safak
Does what we do in life matter so much? Or is it what we don't do that carries weight?
— Elif Shafak
The Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind.
— Elif Shafak
Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.
— Elif Shafak
I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.
— Elif Safak
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
— Elif Safak
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.
— Elif Shafak
Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life of
Love, living is a burden - as you have seen. — Elif Shafak
Love, living is a burden - as you have seen. — Elif Shafak
In love, boundaries are blurred
— Elif Shafak
Once there was, once there wasn't, God's creature were as plentiful as grains and talking too much was a sin.
— Elif Shafak
(N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place?
— Elif Shafak
A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager.
— Elif Batuman
Not every word is fit for every ear.
— Elif Shafak
linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While
— Elif Batuman
If only humans could live exposed to the skies, open and unafraid, watching the stars and being watched by them, with nothing to hide.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
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.
— Elif Shafak
Choice and confusion were conjoined twins
— Elif Shafak
Irrationality is part of everyday rationale
— Elif Shafak