Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 27

Live the future when it comes, not now, only when it comes! Now, only live the now!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To the one in the skies, this city must look like a scintillating pattern of speckled glows in all directions, like a firecracker going off amid thick darkness. Right now the urban pattern glowing here is in hues of orange, ginger, and ochre. It is a configuration of sparkles, each dot a light lit by someone awake at this hour. From where the Celestial Gaze is situated, from that high above, all these sporadically lit bulbs must seem in perfect harmony, constantly flickering, as if coding a cryptic message to God.
Elif Shafak
We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.
İlhan Berk
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I spit out to my heart and my mind. when you collect them together, they can not show the resistance of a average dick.
Arzum Uzun
Speaking English well could open a window of personal and professional opportunities but having great knowledge of business English can give you the edge in becoming indispensable.
John Taskinsoy
Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The path to tranquility gets through the storms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart is. As for the balm, it will heal your wounds, both inside and outside.
Elif Shafak
Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.
Orhan Pamuk
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time.
Arzum Uzun
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bleeding for a decadeFor a decade,We bleed like there is no hell but the earthWe bleed like we were born to dare We bleed like there is nothing alive inside.We find a clueAfter a decadeBleeding is just to breathSimply keeps us alive.
Arzum Uzun
A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The moon belongs to the lovers? Yes! But it also belongs to the lonely! It belongs to anyone who needs it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A nation’s people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world’s nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Self-analysis is vital in the road to success; being unaware of your own skills, capacity, and attributes may cost you the next great promotion.
John Taskinsoy
From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
นายไม่ไว้ใจคนที่ไม่ชอบยุ่งเกี่ยวกับใคร มีแนวคิดแบบตะวันตก ขณะเดียวกันก็มีความเชื่อในพระเจ้าในแบบของตัวเองอยู่เงียบๆ ตามลำพัง นายมองว่าคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้าแต่ยังเข้าร่วมกับชุมชน ยังน่าเชื่อถือได้มากกว่าคนสันโดษที่เชื่อในพระเจ้าเสียอีก สำหรับนายแล้ว คนสันโดษน่าสมเพชเวทนาและบาปยิ่งว่าคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้า
Orhan Pamuk
For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.
Erol Ozan
It is good to say something beautiful; it is even better to say something right; but saying a right thing beautifully, that is the best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan