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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!"
"When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!"
"A big city is a big ocean, the one who doesn't know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!"
"There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth!"
"My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears."
"From a rat hole you can go to the stars or from the stars you can go to a rat hole! Your destiny is open to every possibility!"
"When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!"
"Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don't let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!"
"When you do your work happily, work will disappear."
"May be the road you travel doesn't give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be!"
"God may be the captain pilot of this universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!"
"Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!"
"Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!"
"Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!"
"All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird."
"If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!"
"The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!"
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
"If you are not interested in your own country's problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!"
"The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!"
"No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!"
"Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!"
"It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!"
"It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!"
"If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!"
"Don't behave in accordance with the conditions, make the conditions behave in accordance with yourself!"
"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
"Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media!"
"To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature!"
"What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!"
"Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!"
"You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don't be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!"
"Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can't forget the thing you haven't learned yet!"
"When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!"
"In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!"
"Those who love the rain much cannot long remain dry!"
"The path to tranquility gets through the storms!"
"If you are happy with the journey you can give up the destination!"
"Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty, richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!"
"The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!"
"If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!"
"What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!"
"In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!"
"A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don't you ever forget this!"
"Laugh represents a fragile glory of the mankind in this cruel and uncertain universe!"
"The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!"
"Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!"
"For a child, parents' warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly."
"Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints!"
"Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!"
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