Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming. - Elif Şafak

The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.

التحدي الحقيقي هو أن يحب المرء الأشياء الجيدة والسيئة معاً لا لأنه يجب أن يتقبل الأشياء بحلوها ومرها؛ بل لأنه يجب أن يتجاوز هذه الأوصاف وأن يتقبل الحب برمته.