Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 16

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without passion everything is lame in this life.”Baris Gencel
Baris Gencel
No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Okay," i said. "If i can not find anybody to have sex, i call you."He smiled. "When you'll find out you have not anybody to love, you'll call.
Arzum Uzun
He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A touch may not be always be a love but love is always a touch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...for love loves power. That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.
Elif Shafak
If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won’t be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A life without goal is a ship without rudder!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Harun Yahya
The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.
Elif Shafak
There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.
Orhan Pamuk
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You know it wrong honey. I am friendly. I am not user-friendly.
Arzum Uzun
No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?
Orhan Pamuk