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Love Quotes by Elif Safak
- Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the…
- If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself,…
- A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern…
- God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a…
- Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
- Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into…
- Believers are each other's mirrors.
- Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
- Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.
- A saint belongs to all humanity.
- Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us…
- Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters,…
- How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy…
- Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we…
- 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…
- What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on…
- Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
- Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
- Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.
- How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there…
- I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide