Elif Shafak

The Forty Rules of Love

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  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    When a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer, but when a wine bibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern
  • Aka Bolatkanovahas quoted5 years ago
    There were more important things than passion and love in a marriage, such as understanding, affection, compassion, and that most godlike act a person could perform, forgiveness
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    You need to keep walking, though there’s no place to arrive at
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    Don’t you know that God is the best storyteller?”
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    the Prophet Muhammad said, “In this world take pity on three kinds of people. The rich man who has lost his fortune, the well-respected man who has lost his respectability, and the wise man who is surrounded by ignorants.”
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    every Ramadan one fasts in the name of God and every Eid one sacrifices a sheep or a goat as an atonement for his sins, if all his life one strives to make the pilgrimage to Mecca and five times a day kneels on a prayer rug but at the same time has no room for love in his heart, what is the use of all this trouble?
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself.
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    when we are in love we need to wait for forty days to be sure of our feelings.
  • Sayalı Baharhas quoted8 years ago
    It is the first rule, brother,” I said. “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 is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.”
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