Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 23

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When will you understand that your childish beliefs mean an absolute nothing in this wild universe! When will you be serious? When will you give up deceiving yourself? When will you stop believing in the tales of old times as if they are true?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must often visit the darkness to get the people lost in the darkness out of there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a fish feels sad when a fisherman’s boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A dream like beautiful place is much more important than the beautiful place in a dream, because it is real!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.
Mehmet Murat ildan
To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!
Mehmet Murat ildan
İnsanlık öldü belki de hiç yaşamamıştı..!!Humanity was dead.Maybe never live too..!!
Oğuz Atay
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!
Mehmet Murat ildan
British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson "Why Nations Fail"
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
Orhan Pamuk
Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan