Turkish Writers Quotes - Page 6

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!

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!

Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

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!

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!

Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!

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

For a great willpower, no road has length!

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

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

What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!

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

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

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!

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

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!

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

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!

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

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!

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

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

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!

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

For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!

A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!

This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!

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

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

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!

The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

Death must die so that life can be real!

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

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!