Turkish Writers Quotes - Page 5

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

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!

What are we? We are a thinking universe!

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!

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

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!

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

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!

The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away from your herd to get closer to yourself, to find your true self you have lost in the herd!

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

You will never be lonely on the right path because the truth itself is the best companion a person can ever have!

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

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!

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!

Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!

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!

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!

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!