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Us Quotes by Elif Safak
- God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work…
- No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get…
- Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity…
- Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.
- We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,…
- 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…
- To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is…
- I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us.…
- The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we…
- 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…
- The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us…
- The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through…
- But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually…
- Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right…
- 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…
- Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong