Elif Shafak Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Arriving there is what you are destined for,But do not hurry the journey at all... The Island of Missing Trees

2. 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. The Forty Rules of Love

3. God created sufferings so that joy might appear through its opposite. Things become manifest through opposites. Since God has no opposite, He remains hidden. The Forty Rules of Love

4. 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 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. The Forty Rules of Love

5. Mourning is like virginity. You should give it to the one who deserves it most. The Bastard of Istanbul

6. When you are in trouble or at your lowest point, and have no one in whom to confide, a hawthorn would be the right choice. There is a reason why hawthorns are home to fairies and known to protect pots of treasure. For wisdom, try a beech; for intelligence, a pine; for bravery, a rowan; for generosity, a hazel; for joy, a juniper; and for when you need to learn to let go of what you cannot control, a birch with its white-silver bark, peeling and shedding layers like old skin. Then again, if it's love you're after, or love you have lost, come to the fig, always the fig. The Island of Missing Trees

7. Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller. The Bastard of Istanbul

8. He believed that love had nothing to do with 'plans for tomorrow' or 'memories of yesterday'. Love could only be here and now. One of his earlier e-mails to her had ended with this note: 'I'm a Sufi, the child of the present moment'. The Forty Rules of Love

9. In that moment Jahan understood that life was the sum of the choices one did not make; the paths yearned for but not taken. The Architect's Apprentice

10. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.

11. Миналото е въпрос на тълкуване. Бъдещето е илюзия. Светът не се движи като по права черта през времето и не върви от миналото към бъдещето. Обратното, времето се движи на безкрайни спирали през и вътре в нас.Вечността не е безкрайно време, тя е безвремие.Ако искаш да постигнеш вечно просветление, премахни от съзнанието си миналото и бъдещето и живей в настоящия миг. The Forty Rules of Love