Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 31

Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain’t any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doubts are good. It means you are alive and searching. One does not become a believer overnight. He thinks he is a believer; then something happens in his life and he becomes an unbeliever, after that, he becomes a believer again and then an unbeliever again, and so on. Until we reach a certain stage, we constantly waver. This is the only way forward. At each new step, we come closer to the Truth.
Elif Shafak
A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a reality
Mehmet Murat ildan
I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far.
Arzum Uzun
Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crying has no potential for solving the problems!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.“By giving us more work, of course.
Elif Shafak
Sevgili Güllük;Yastık kanepenin üzerine konur. Tekme atılarak düşürülür o. Pazar günleri kuru fasulye yenir. Karşılıklı, alt alta, üst üste ve daha değişik şekillerde durulur. Islak vardır. Portakalın içi de dışı gibi portakal rengidir. Köstebeklerin uçma kabiliyeti bulunmaz. Kamyonlar yük taşırlar. Kaza olur. Kaza yaparlar. Süleyman, Çetin, Atıf, Kemal, Necdet gibi erkek isimleri; Zeynep, Burçak, Burçak ve Burçak gibi kız isimleri vardır. Patates cinsleri vardır; kızartmalık ve haşlamalık. Çeşitli ebatlarda düğün pastaları olur. Muz olur.
A.H. Muhsin Ünlü
Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Artists show us what we blind to.”Baris Gencel
Baris Gencel
You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
Orhan Pamuk
If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..
Baris Gencel
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.
Orhan Pamuk
If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Inaction is the worst action of human beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who can truly see, know.
Orhan Pamuk
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
Orhan Pamuk
If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The day you stop dreaming, you stop creating the future as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
No matter what happens in the outside world, as long as you have faith in yourself, no darkness can touch you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren’t only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I guess whether we choose to travel as much as Marco Polo did or stay in the same spot from cradle to grave, life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.
Elif Shafak
Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan