I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

Dispassion doesn't mean to no longer feel the passions, but to no longer accept them.

it's springand the goat-footedballoonMan whistlesfarandwee

He gave his life to save the thing that mattered most to him: his Clanmates, ” he meowed softly. “He truly has the stars at his paws now. You will see him again, when it is time.

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear.

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.