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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!"
"In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!"
"The longest path is always the one you walk with fear!"
"When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!"
"A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!"
"When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!"
"When you look at a natural beauty, it also looks at you! Since both the viewer and the viewed are miracles, two miracles look at each other in admiration!"
"To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!"
"The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!"
"You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!"
"All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!"
"The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!"
"If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!"
"To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!"
"A life without goal is a ship without rudder!"
"Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!"
"When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!"
"If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!"
"We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!"
"Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!"
"When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!"
"While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe!"
"Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth!"
"There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately, that is the way!"
"The nicest thing about being lost is that you get rid of the fear of losing your path!"
"When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!"
"Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!"
"Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!"
"The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!"
"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"
"We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!"
"All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!"
"Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take you right to the stars and the beyond! And such are the thoughts of Buddha!"
"A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!"
"A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!"
"Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!"
"Rain is a blessing if it gives its place to Sun after a fair while, Sun is a blessing if it gives its place to rain after a fair while!"
"One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!"
"A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!"
"When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!"
"If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!"
"Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!"
"Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!"
"When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!"
"There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!"
"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!"
"Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being's adventures in this universe!"
"Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!"
"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!"
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
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