Turkish Writers Quotes - Page 11

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!

In reality the concept of ‘other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!

Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!

Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!

Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!

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!

Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!

Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!

Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!

Today’s warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!

The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!

When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!

The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!

Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!

Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can’t see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!

The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!

What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!

The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!