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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!"
"What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!"
"Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom."
"Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!"
"When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!"
"The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!"
"If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!"
"A good quote is a beautiful bird! Wherever you meet with it, you will start flying with it!"
"Not only persons lose their way, but nations lose their way as well!"
"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
"Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!"
"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
"Acquaintances are always abundant, friends are always scarce!"
"An empty street sucks your fullness, a full street fills your emptiness!"
"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"
"There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!"
"Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!"
"When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!"
"Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!"
"There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!"
"When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!"
"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
"Let the boundlessness be your boundary!"
"You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!"
"Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!"
"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
"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 are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!"
"For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!"
"Inaction is the worst action of human beings!"
"May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target!"
"Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don't try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!"
"There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!"
"For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!"
"If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don't lose time to think about it, do it right away!"
"When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!"
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
"Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!"
"It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius."
"Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!"
"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"
"If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!"
"Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!"
"Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!"
"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"
"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"
"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
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