“Bir gün, belki on sene oluyor, bir hocam bana: "Zekanı mirasyedi gibi harcıyorsun!" demişti. Doğru... Zekamı har vurup harman savurdum ve nihayet iflas ettim... Hiçbir şeyim kalmadı... Ben zekayı radyum gibi bitip tükenmez bir cevher sanıyordum...”
― İçimizdeki Şeytan
― İçimizdeki Şeytan
“Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
“He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.”
― The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
― The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward”
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".”
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Turkish Literature Club of Chicago
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— last activity Feb 08, 2013 08:30PM
We are a book club meeting on the first Thursday of each month in Chicago, discussing literature, life, reading, writing and having fun together. We ...more
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