“if you are unwilling to change, do not enter into philosophical arguments” — Elif Shafak Arguments Copy Share Image
“There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.” — Elif Shafak Color white Copy Share Image
“Her insanın erafında bir renk halesi vardır. Seninkini biliyor musun?” — Elif Shafak Mint Copy Share Image
“geniuses think they’re not bound by the rules of common people.” — Elif Shafak Common people Copy Share Image
“Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to.” — Elif Shafak Cities Copy Share Image
“Whatever falls from the sky above, thou shall not curse it. That includes the rain” — Elif Shafak Rain Copy Share Image
“I cannot prevent people from destroying. All I can do is keep building.” — Elif Shafak Building Copy Share Image
“Only humans have consciousness. It's divine order. That's why Allah hold us humans responsible fir our behavior.” — Elif Shafak Allah 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 Help others Copy Share Image
“When you meet different person, another name, another religion, that’s all good. We learn from difference, not from sameness.” — Elif Shafak Alike Copy Share Image
“There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.” — Elif Shafak Different ways Copy Share Image
“If you want to destroy something, be it a blemish, acne or the human soul, all you need to do is surround… — Elif Shafak Destroy 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… — Elif Shafak Relativism Copy Share Image
“Behind all hardships was a larger scheme. I couldn’t make it out clearly, but I could feel it with my whole heart.” — Elif Shafak Hardships Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do, she would have said, don't hurt anyone and don't let anyone hurt you. Be neither a heartbreaker nor heartbroken.” — Elif Shafak Heartbroken Copy Share Image
“As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed… — Elif Shafak Books 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 Ask yourself 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
“Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of… — Elif Shafak Afraid Copy Share Image
“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you… — Elif Shafak First step Copy Share Image
“The working hours were long and the pay not great. Still, no waiter had resigned to this day; instead they would get… — Elif Shafak Fired Copy Share Image
“He tip-toed past the double bed that had been placed in a corner - wrought-iron headboard, embroidered pillows, amulets against the evil-eye… — Elif Shafak Blue Copy Share Image
“As I do next to all women who glow with this kind of femininity, I feel like an impostor, a poor imitation… — Elif Shafak Femininity 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 Approval of others Copy Share Image
“The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you. Everything that you see around, including the things you might not be… — Elif Shafak Bright side Copy Share Image
“Silence is the worst. Whenever a thick cloud of silence descends, the yapping voices inside me become all the more audible, rising… — Elif Shafak Silence Copy Share Image
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What… — Elif Shafak Crescent moon Copy Share Image
“إنني أعتبر الإيمان بهذه الطريقة، مثل البستان فيه ورود مخفية كنت أطوف فيه ذات يومٍ وأستنشق الروائح العطرة التي تعبق منه، لكن… — Elif Shafak Longing Copy Share Image
“It was all because of the traffic, she would later reassure herself. Rumbling, roaring, metal clanking against metal like the cries of… — Elif Shafak Gridlock Copy Share Image
“It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end… — Elif Shafak Demanding Copy Share Image
“Not that she had been to Cairo or Delhi. But, like many other Istanbulites, Peri held a firm belief that her city… — Elif Shafak Istanbul Copy Share Image
“Si no le cuentas a nadie lo extraordinario, todo el mundo supone que es normal.” — Elif Shafak Amor Copy Share Image
