Elif Şafak Quotes

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It’s like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

She would rather stay home and, in the witching hours, be immersed in a novel –reading being her way to connect with the universe.

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

حياتك حافلة، مليئة، كاملة، أو هكذا يخيل إليك حتى يظهر فيها شخص يجعلك تدرك ما كنت تفتقده طوال هذا الوقت.

Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…

كيف يمكنك أن تمنعي شخصا من القراءة إذا كنت تلقنينه الحروف الأبجدية، وكيف يمكن لمن ذاقت الحب إن لا تظمأ له ؟؟!!

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

عندما تفعل شيئا من أعماق روحك، فإنك تشعر بنهر يجري في داخلك بفرحة

لا تحكم على الطريقة التي يتواصل بها الناس مع الله, فلكل امرئ طريقته وصلاته الخاصة. إن الله لا يأخذنا بكلمتنا, بل ينظر في أعماق قلوبنا. وليست المناسك أو الطقوس هي التي تجعلنا مؤمنين بل إن كانت قلوبنا صافية أم لا.

Just because you think it’s safe here, it doesn’t mean this is the right place for you, her heart countered. Sometimes where you feel most safe is where you least belong.

Maybe we give other names to grief because we are too scared to call it by its name.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission?

Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

لو بقينا ذات الشخص قبل أن نحب وبعده، فهذا يعني أن حبّنا لم يكن كافيًا.

العشب اكثر أخضرارا دوما فى الضفة الاخري

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.