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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!"
"By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!"
"To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!"
"Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!"
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
"Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open, let everything enters the house!"
"A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!"
"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!"
"It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!"
"People often make very bad mistakes because people often don't ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!"
"If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!"
"The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!"
"Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!"
"Find a right and a beautiful idea, stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!"
"Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!"
"Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!"
"Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist, but the past existed!"
"What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!"
"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"
"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
"Have an objective in life! Or you feel lost in life!"
"The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!"
"If you are a path-creator, you don't need a path!"
"The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!"
"After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!"
"Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!"
"You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!"
"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"
"Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!"
"Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!"
"If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!"
"Your most precious asset is your right thinking!"
"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"
"If love and death did not exist, tears would not exist as well!"
"The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!"
"When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!"
"Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!"
"Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!"
"In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!"
"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"
"Disappointment means that things haven't worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!"
"Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!"
"When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!"
"They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems' path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of 'test' at once!"
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