Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
Orhan PamukRead
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.
Interpretation
Life has its challenges, but there are always moments of solace and beauty to find.
In this quote, Orhan Pamuk reflects on the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. He suggests that even when life presents difficulties, there are simple pleasures, like taking a long walk along the Bosphorus, that can bring peace and joy, reminding us of the beauty that exists in the world around us.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.
Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.
Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
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