Turkish Literature Quotes - Page 10

Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!

To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!

The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!

To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!

Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.

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!

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!

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

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!

Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!

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!

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

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!

Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

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!

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!

To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!

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!

The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!

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!

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!

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!

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

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!

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

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!

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!

You can save hundred words with just one look!

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!

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!

Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!

When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!

You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!

Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!

Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!

The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!

How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!