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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"Literature is a microscope, it shows us the unseen!"

"The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc."

"The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!"

"No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!"

"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?"

"Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!"

"A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!"

"Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no need to watch the news because there is no need to listen to the lies! And you already have one real information: You are being deceived by the people you are governed! This is an enough information for you!"

"Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future."

"The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil."

"If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light!"

"Don't wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don't wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!"

"Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!"

"In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!"

"Rain just rains, it does nothing else. Wisdom just rains, it does nothing else! And those who get the rain get the miracles hidden inside the rain and create their own miracles!"

"Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!"

"Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!"

"He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!"

"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!"

"The more we respect other creatures, the more respect our humanity will get!"

"Hard roads require will of steel!"

"In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!"

"All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!"

"The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!"

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

"The greatest realisation in one's life is this: You don't have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world!"

"Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye."

"If you are a sensitive person, you don't give flowers to others, because you know that the flowers " these miraculous beauties and the wondrous jewels of our cosmos " excessively deserve to live!"

"Losing something might be a blessing, gaining something might be a curse!"

"Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!"

"Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!"

"If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!"

"To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!"

"There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!"

"Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!"

"Don't forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!"

"For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!"

"To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth!"

"Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!"

"You want to fly? Find an art and watch it carefully!"

"Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!"

"Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!"

"Infinite horizons belong to those who have infinite imagination!"

"Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!"

"In life, there is only one way to exist: To struggle!"

"One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don't have to be a poisonous snake yourself!"

"Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!"

"Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!"

"A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student, but a student who is becoming better than all the masters is a supreme student!"
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