
The Forty Rules of Love

This world is like a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you. Therefore, if there is someone who harbors ill thoughts about you, saying similarly bad things about him will only make matters worse. You will be locked in a vicious circle
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
Learn the Truth, my friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths.”
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
topsy-turvy,
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
In this world, it is not similarities or regularities that take us a step forward, but blunt opposites. And all the opposites in the universe are present within each and every one of us. Therefore the believer needs to meet the unbeliever residing within. And the nonbeliever should get to know the silent faithful in him. Until the day one reaches t
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aversion
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or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
“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, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
subservient
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
seemed ravenous.