Elif Safak Quotes

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

All you gotta do is chill out... Let go of control and chill out... Let it be, Trust.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been dropped, you cannot go anywhere; all dreams and desires have disappeared, there is no way to move. Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.