Quotes - Venus Gunyeli (venusgunyeli) (Turkey) Showing 1-6 of 6

#1

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

#2

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy

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#3

“The old map has not vanished, but it can no longer explain where we are.”
― Venus Gunyeli, The Intimate Afterlife of Myth: Ancient Stories for the Inner Life

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#4

“Hope had worn his face in my mind for years. That did not mean the face before me was his.”
― Venus Gunyeli, The Intimate Afterlife of Myth: Ancient Stories for the Inner Life

tags: greek-mythology, hope, longing, love, memory, odyssey, penelope, trust, uncertainty, waiting

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#5

“Admiration had never kept me company. It had only taught me how much could depend on a face.”
― Venus Gunyeli, The Intimate Afterlife of Myth: Ancient Stories for the Inner Life

tags: admiration, appearance, beauty, greek-mythology, identity, loneliness, love, psyche, self-worth, vulnerability

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#6

“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
― Jacques Lacan

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