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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!"
"The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!"
"When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!"
"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"
"Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!"
"When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!"
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"
"Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!"
"Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!"
"Night becomes day only when the sun appears, dark man becomes good man only when the compassion appears!"
"In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!"
"A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!"
"Some sit and watch the life, some sail to the sea and the life watches them!"
"All was possible, all is possible and all shall be possible! This philosophy will destroy every impossibilities! The doors shall be opened in places where there have never been any doors!"
"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
"The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!"
"In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!"
"As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!"
"If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!"
"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"
"Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!"
"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!"
"The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!"
"No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!"
"Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!"
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
"In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don't forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!"
"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"
"If you stuck in the past, you won't be able to step in the future!"
"Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!"
"Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!"
"Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!"
"It is not enough to protect the source of the light, the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us!"
"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don't have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!"
"The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!"
"He who laughs and loves is always rich, he who sulks and hates is always poor!"
"If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!"
"Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!"
"When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!"
"A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And 'to be remembered, to be respected' is a good sunshine; 'safety in the mine' is a good sunshine!"
"If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!"
"Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!"
"In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!"
"If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!"
"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"
"Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free!"
"Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!"
"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!"
"The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!"
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