Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 16

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Artists show us what we blind to.”Baris Gencel
Baris Gencel
Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many you’s within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side! ~
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes the bridge that leads to heaven is the very hell itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring.
Mehmet Murat ildan
At the beginning Earth was a hell; then it became a heaven! Hell is the road leading to heaven! Chestnut tastes good after roasted! When the sand lives through hell, it becomes a beautiful glass!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The worst mistakes of your past can be the best lights of your future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson "Why Nations Fail"
The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will best realise the speed of life when you stop and watch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life there are times where you have to behave like twilight streets: Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t even dream, just be silent and wait for the light to shine on you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan