Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 32

There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.--Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Woman cannot be free until man’s mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself.
Taner Akçam
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch out when the bad treats you well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I’m nothing great. But I’m a rose… I’m a rose whether I’m admired or not, I’m a rose whether anyone’s crazy about me or not… Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose… But, do you know what it means to be a rose, my friend? Being a rose means ‘freedom.’ It means not existing by the praises of Others or not ceasing to exist by their disapproval.
Serdar Özkan
Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We must thank to the crazy people because by looking at their achievements or the failures, we can decide whether we have to inject some craziness to our own lives or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can save hundred words with just one look!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By disappearing in the Land of Nature, you appear in the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do the things you want to do; if you don’t, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the most distinct features of this whole human history is god flattery! People never get tired of buttering every kind of gods in the hope of getting earthly benefit or obtaining heavenly plunder! Man is no doubt a tireless flunkey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don’t forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God’s Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.
Elif Shafak