Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 19

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?
Mehmet Murat ildan
If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A happy face is also a source of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are happy, don’t analyse your happiness, don’t ask questions and don’t even think about it; just live it to the fullest!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A house without security cannot be a home!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.
Orhan Pamuk
Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.“By giving us more work, of course.
Elif Shafak
What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God’s Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life - the miracle given to you by the evolution - under all conditions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without knowing every single detail in a man’s life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Woman cannot be free until man’s mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh
Baris Gencel
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.
Orhan Pamuk
If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself.
Taner Akçam
No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.
Taner Akçam
A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I know every single street in this town. And I love strolling these streets in the mornings, in the evenings, and then at night when I am merry and tipsy. I love to have breakfasts with my friends along the Bosphorus on Sundays, I love to walk alone amid the crowds. I am in love with the chaotic beauty of this city, the ferries, the music, the tales, the sadness, the colors, and the black humor.....
Elif Shafak
To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!
Mehmet Murat ildan