Years Later Quote by Elif Shafak

“Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of…

— Cihan Okuyucu

“The poet Rumi says: "How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Mother: “Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak for you…

— Eula Biss

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“There is always a moment when stories end, a moment when everything is blue and black and silent, and the teller does not want…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“It was a long story, and like most of the stories in the world, never finished. There was an ending - there always is…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.”

— David Eddings

“we might as well live life as if -as the poet Rumi put it-everything is rigged in our favor”

— Arianna Huffington

“Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit…

— Jim Butcher

“When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the…

— Rumi

“When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged…

— Tara Brach