“Let us choose one another as companions! Let us sit at each other's feet! Inwardly we have many harmonies - think not… — Elif Shafak Companions 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 Copy Share Image
“In general, one shouldn't be too rigid about anything because "to live meant to constantly shift colours.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Readying for prayer was like shoving into a cupboard all the junk and clutter, before God came to visit the house of… — Elif Shafak Cupboard 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 Armenian Copy Share Image
“rule no 13: the quest for love changes us. there is no seeker among those who search for love who has not… — Elif Shafak Adventure 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
“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
“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
“the hearts of all mystic lovers.” Likewise when Ibn Arabi, the distinguished philosopher, writer, and mystic, saw the young Rumi walking behind… — Elif Shafak Mystic 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 Copy Share Image
“East, west, south, or north makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey… — Elif Shafak Destination 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… — Elif Shafak Fall in love Copy Share Image
“It happened all the time in this city that encompassed seven hills, two continents, three seas and fifteen million mouths. It happened… — Elif Shafak Behind closed doors 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
“Pity the fool who thinks the boundaries of his mortal mind are the boundaries of God the Almighty. Pity the ignorant who… — Elif Shafak Death Copy Share Image
“Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today ́s globalized world. And it… — Elif Shafak Community Copy Share Image
“In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Shams of Tabriz Befuddled believer! If every Ramadan one fasts in the name of God and every Eid one sacrifices a sheep… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Peri disliked these dinner parties, which went on late into the night and often left her with a migraine the next day.… — Elif Shafak Istanbul 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
“Invisible strands of solidarity threaded among strangers who, upon finding out they shared the same religion or nationality, developed an instant affinity.” — Elif Shafak Religion Copy Share Image
“How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.” — elif shafak Copy Share Image
“was religion an empowering force for women who otherwise had limited power in a society designed for and by men, or was… — Elif Shafak Empowering Copy Share Image
“But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere…” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not… — Elif Shafak Belief Copy Share Image
“It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every… — Elif Shafak Communication Copy Share Image
“It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a… — Elif Shafak Heart 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
“Things that can seem malicious or unfortunate are often a blessing in disguise, whereas things that might seem pleasant can be harmful… — Elif Shafak Blessing in disguise 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 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 Castle 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
“Plutarch was right after all. Fate did lead those who were willing to be led, and those who resisted the idea, like… — Elif Shafak Plutarch 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
“There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
![“Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today ́s globalized world. And it ́s happening everywhere, among liberals and conservatives, agnostics and believers, the rich and the poor, East and West alike. We tend to form clusters based on similarity…” quote by Elif Shafak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/803/elif-shafak-1594_community_ironically-living-in-communities-of-the_1898983.jpg)
