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    Elif Shafak
    “Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #2
    Charles Dickens
    “Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #3
    Charles Dickens
    “She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #4
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #6
    “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
    Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within

  • #7
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson



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