Elif Şafak Quotes

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.

للأمومة اسم مستعار أيضًا : الشعور بالذنب

Този свят е като заснежена планина, където кънти ехото на гласа ти. Каквото и да кажеш, и добро, и зло, то ще се върне пак при теб. Затова, в случай, че някой ти мисли злото, само ще усложниш положението, ако тръгнеш да злословиш за него. Ще влезеш в омагьосания кръг на мъстта. Ето защо четирийсет дни и четирийсет нощи говори и си мисли за този човек хубави неща. В края на четирийсетте дни всичко ще бъде различно, защото дълбоко в себе си ти ще бъдеш друг.

تقول القاعدة الاربعون انه لا قيمة للحياة من دون عشق لا تسأل نفسك ما نوع العشق الذي تريده روحي ام مادي الهي ام دنيوي غربي ام شرقي فالانقسمات لا تؤدي الا لمزيد من الانقسمات ليس للعشق تعريق و لا انما هو كما هو نقي و بسيط
العشق ماء الحياه.... و العشيق هو روح النار
يصبح الكون مختلفا عندما تعشق النار الماء
مذهلة ارشحها دائمًا

İnsan belli bir yaşa gelince kendi hudutları ve hatalarıyla barışmaya başlıyor.

علاقتى بالأشياء عبارة عن سلسلة من الخيانات،آتى بها،أحبها،ثم أتخلص منها.اعتدت منذ طفولتى على حزم الأغراض وإعادة حزمها فى صناديق.عندما تكثر من الإنتقال بين الأحياء والمدن والبلدان،لا تستطيع أن تحمل معك سوى القليل من الأشياء لا غير،أما بقية ماتملك، قستتعلم مرغنًا أن تتركه خلفك .

The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in,” said Shams as if he had read my thoughts. “Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

"قاعدة أخرى
يتكون الفكر والحب من مواد مختلفة
فالفكر يربط البشر في عقد
لكن الحب يذيب جميع العقد
إن الفكر حذر علي الدوام وهو يقول ناصحا "احذر الكثير من النشوة" بينما الحب يقول "لا تكترث أقدم على هذه المجازفة" وفي حين أن الفكر لا يمكن أن يتلاشى بسهولة
فإن الحب يتهدم بسهولة ويصبح ركاما من تلقاء نفسه لكن الكنوز تتواري بين الأنقاض
والقلب الكسير يخبئ كنوزا."

Azur smiled as if he were expecting these answers and said, 'The Malady of Certainty.'

Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With certainty came arrogance; with arrogance, blindness; with blindness, darkness; and with darkness, more certainty. This he called, the converse nature of convictions.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Motherlands are castles made of glass. In order to leave them, you have to break something – a wall, a social convention, a cultural norm, a psychological barrier, a heart. What you have broken will haunt you. To be an emigré, therefore, means to forever bear shards of glass in your pockets. It is easy to forget they are there, light and minuscule as they are, and go on with your life, your little ambitions and important plans, but at the slightest contact the shards will remind you of their presence. They will cut you deep.

في بعض الأحيان يجب أن تحطم كل ارتباطاتك حتى تفوز بنفسك.

عندما أقرأ كتابا، لا أشعر أنني أنهيت أي شيء؛ لذلك فإني أبدأ كتابا جديدا.

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.