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 Şafak
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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 (born October 25, 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, academic, public speaker and women's rights activist.
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Elif Shafak
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Elif Bilgin Shafaq
Portrait from Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Publicity shot by Ebru Bilun, released by Michael Radulescu of Rusoff Agency, the literary agency for the subject. Used under CC BY-SA. Processed and styled by Quotewise.
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In a world that is ever shifting and unpredictable, I've come to believe it is totally fine not to feel fine. It is perfectly okay not be okay. If truth be told, if from time to time, you do not catch yourself overwhelmed and exhausted, or even incandescent, maybe you are not really following what is going on - here, there and everywhere.
عندما يدخل عاشق حقيقي لله لأي حانة، فإنها تصبح غرفة صلاته, لكن عندما يدخل شارب الخمر إلى الغرفة نفسها، فإنها تصبح خمارته. ففي كل شيء نفعله، قلوبنا هي المهمة، لا مظاهرنا الخارجية.
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.
