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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!"

"There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!"

"Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!"

"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth."

"Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future!"

"Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!"

"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"

"We must thank to the crazy people because by looking at their achievements or the failures, we can decide whether we have to inject some craziness to our own lives or not!"

"Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!"

"Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!"

"What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!"

"To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature!"

"Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!"

"As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!"

"There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!"

"There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence!"

"Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!"

"Solitude is the best school where you can scrutinize your past mistakes and make necessary corrections for the future, it is your greatest opportunity to create a better fate!"

"In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!"

"When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies!"

"Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!"

"A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!"

"Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!"

"There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!"

"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"

"Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!"

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

"Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!"

"Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace."

"It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano, but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea!"

"Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will go out! Keep the curtains open!"

"No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!"

"When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!"

"Children and cats are the best machines of fun!"

"Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!"

"Life is difficult for an ant, for a cat, for an elephant, for us, for birds! Everyone needs a helping hand, if not today, tomorrow for sure! Keep your hands ready for helping! Keep yourself ready to be helped!"

"When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!"

"What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!"

"Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet, darkness can shine!"

"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"

"If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!"

"Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!"

"Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!"

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"

"Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander."

"Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!"

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

"Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny!"
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