Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 8

For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do we see when we look at our Earth from the space? We see a giant present given to us by the evolutionary processes! To love and to protect this cosmic present is the most supreme duty of every living person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest magic of life is that all things in life can be changed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of ‘-isms’ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist…I wasn’t interested in any religion and the difference between ‘religiosity’ and ‘spirituality’ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn’t interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.
Elif Shafak
When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The universe has no mind and that’s why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You see only the cat’s paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.
Orhan Pamuk
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of impossibilities! Try to do the things which are beyond your powers; change your frontiers, create new ones! And then attack the new frontiers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.
Mehmet Murat ildan