No eye sees so clear and sharp as the eye of love.
Catalog
Elif Shafak
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 haven't loved enough.
If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.
No eye sees so clear and sharp as the eye of love.
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.
If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
Love can only be perfected in pain.
For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.
What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn.
It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.
But treasures are hidden among ruins. A broken heart hides treasures.
I'd rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven, so that people could start loving God for no other than love.
Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
If you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside. For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather.
You can purify your body through fasting and abstinence, but only love will purify your heart.
Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated.
The way to a man’s heart can sometimes take a woman far away from herself, my dear.
To stay alive, you need to fight. It's as simple as that.