“Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead… — Elif Shafak Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“Si no le cuentas a nadie lo extraordinario, todo el mundo supone que es normal.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“God was a maze without a map, a circle without a centre; the pieces of a jigsaw that never seemed to fit… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“You see, dervish, it wasn't always like this. Violence wasn't my element, but it is now. When God forgets about us down… — Elif Shafak Common people Copy Share Image
“My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked… — Elif Shafak Change Copy Share Image
“geniuses think they’re not bound by the rules of common people.” — Elif Shafak Common people 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some… — Elif Shafak Grief Copy Share Image
“One of the most notorious slogans of ultra-nationalism in Turkey has been ‘Either love it or leave it!’ It is meant to… — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the… — Elif Shafak Love Copy Share Image
“On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your… — Elif Shafak Art Copy Share Image
“You say you are ready to deliver your knowledge to another person. You want to hold the Truth in your palm as… — Elif Shafak Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process” — Elif Shafak End result 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 Copy Share Image
“Hasan, the Begger: Believe it or not, they call this purgatory on earth “holy-suffering”. I am a leper stuck in limbo. Neither… — Elif Shafak Almost love Copy Share Image
“how both Armenian and Turkish stories tended to start with the same preamble: Once there was, once there wasn’t …” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to… — Elif Shafak Companions Copy Share Image
“One must walk the Earth with wonder, or it is full of miracles yet to be witnessed.” — Elif Shafak Earth Copy Share Image
“be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in… — Elif Shafak Flowers Copy Share Image
