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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!"
"If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!"
"Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!"
"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"
"Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!"
"When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine."
"The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!"
"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!"
"In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!"
"When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!"
"When your dream dies, create another dream; don't waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don't stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!"
"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"
"What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog. What a great genius this water is!"
"To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!"
"A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!"
"No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!"
"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't make a high jump without high spirits!"
"We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!"
"Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!"
"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
"People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!"
"Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a watermill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good."
"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!"
"It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!"
"Plucking a flower and giving it to someone is not an act of kindness, it is a behaviour of killing a defenceless fragile beauty for the sake of our own interest!"
"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
"Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!"
"Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!"
"You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt."
"Don't perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!"
"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"
"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!"
"In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us."
"You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!"
"What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!"
"A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!"
"Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!"
"The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!"
"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!"
"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!"
"When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!"
"If your words touch the hearts, that's good; if your words touch the minds, that's better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!"
"Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!"
"God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!"
"Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!"
"In reality the concept of 'other nation' is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!"
"Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!"
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