Turkish Aphorisms Quotes - Page 2

The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!

Your path will shine when you shine on your path!

In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!

Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!

Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!

You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!

An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!

Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!

Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!

If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!

When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!

Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!

Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!

Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!

The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!

If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!

Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!

To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!

They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!

Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!

In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!

No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!

There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!

While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!

You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn’t need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!

Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!

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!

Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!

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!