Kader ’, people called it – ‘destiny’ – and said no more, because people always gave simple names to the complex things that frightened them. - Elif Şafak

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

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

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.