Turkish Quotes Quotes - Page 5

Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!

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!

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

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!

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!

There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth!

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!

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!

Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!

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

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

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!

The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!

There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!

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

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!

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

Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!

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!

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!

It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

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!

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!

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!

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

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

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!

People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

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!

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

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!

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!

Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!

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!

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!