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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
― Rumi

“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy”
― Robert Half

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“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.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“غير أن المرأة لا تصير أمّا بمجرد الإنجاب،بل عليها أن تتعلم الأمومة، إنها معرفة. يأخذ استيعابها عند البعض وقتًا أطول من الآخرين.فهناك مثيلاتى، من يجدن أنفسهن يرتعشن حتى العظام من هول التجربة.”
― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within