“Does what we do in life matter so much? Or is it what we don't do that carries weight?” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“An aura surrounds every living thing, an aura in a different colour each time. Do you know what colour is yours?” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life of Love, living is a burden—as you have seen.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Busbecq believed there were two blessings in life: books and friends. And that they should be possessed in inverse quantities: many books,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I have always clung, or maybe I wanted to cling, to bits and pieces of existence here and there, with no coherence,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“As a Sufi I had sworn to protect life and do no harm. In this world of illusions, so many people were… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“My life is complete and fulfilled, in that I have been blessed with the three things I hold most dear: knowledge, virtue,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“In this state I roam east and west, searching for God high and low. I hunrt everywhere for a life worth living… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“If you couldn't help harboring higher aspirations in life, you should at least harbor only simple desires, reduced in passion and ambition,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“To her way of thinking, anyone who can't rise up and rebel, anyone devoid of the ability to dissent, cannot really be… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to change the life I am living? Am I ready to… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of cities in the world: those that reassure their residents that tomorrow and the day after, and the… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“By and large, the narrow-minded say that dancing is sacrilege. They think God gave us music—not only the music we make with… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Things that can seem malicious or unfortunate are often a blessing in disguise, whereas things that might seem pleasant can be harmful… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Od nje je naučio dvije osnovne stvari o ljubavi: prvo, da je, za razliku od onoga što romantici tako naduto tvrde, ljubav više postupan… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending in every… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about other cultures,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Her insanın erafında bir renk halesi vardır. Seninkini biliyor musun?” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I'm not one of those pious types who spend their whole lives hunched on prayer rugs while their eyes and hearts remain closed to… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“There are things so awful in this world that the good-hearted people, may Allah bless them all, have absolutely no idea of. And that's… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it might cause… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
