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“Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?”

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Elif Safak is a renowned Turkish author born on October 25, 1971. Her works are known for their profound character development and rich cultural background, which have won her a wide audience. more

“How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.”

Ifs Seems Social Hours Strange Excuse Accepted Engagement Shopping Rude Appointments Egotistical Inexplicable Expeditions Hairdresser

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

Death Worst Destruction Ruins Decay Woe

Author:William Shakespeare

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”

Ifs Thinking Hurt Willing

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”

Firsts Children Long Form Broken Birth Claims Punishment Again And Again Womb Spine Backbone

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

Life Inspirational Success Purpose Goal Attitude Vision Creativity Teaching Achieve Missing Danger Positive Failure Achievement Lows Yoga Aim Setting Painter Aspiration Reaching Purpose Of Life Aspire Positive Life Setting Goals Visionaries Sculptors Aim High Achieving Success Achieving Your Goals Reaching Your Goals Achieved Success Dreams And Goals Goals And Life Achieving Goals Inspirational Goal Inspirational Goal Setting Great Vision Life Dream Focus On Goals Visions And Dreams Motivation Goal Setting Goals And Motivation Your Purpose In Life Vision Of Life Reaching Success Reaching Goals Creative Vision Leadership Vision Team Goal Leadership And Vision Visionary Leaders Aim Of Life Vocabulary Words Visionary Leadership Aim Of Education Gym Motivation High Goals Becoming A Leader Gym Motivational Inspirational School Learning Life Educational Leaders Vision And Success Our Purpose In Life Sales Goals

Author:Michelangelo

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

Should Age Old Age

Book:Hemingway on Fishing

Source: Hemingway on Fishing

“Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.”

Trying Feelings Blind Deaf

Author:Tabitha Suzuma

“All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.”

Years Moments Doors Car Archives

Book:The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild

Source: The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild

“Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.”

Thinking Play Feelings Winning Decision Half Products Shots Logic Instinct Tennis

Book:Open

Source: Open

“Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.”

Thinking Watches Tvs Fine Notes

Book:Things Not Seen

Source: Things Not Seen

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