Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 2

Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.
Orhan Pamuk
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed in my soul. To me these were as universal, dependable, and invariable as the laws of nature. Together they constituted The Forty Rules of the Religion of Love, which could be attained through love and love only.
Elif Shafak
In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?
Orhan Pamuk
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal
Orhan Pamuk
We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you think about all the infinitely many galaxies and combinations of DNA, and against all those odds you meet this person - it's a miracle...' 'Right,' I said. I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle - that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up by how quantifiably lovable they are?
Elif Batuman
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
Mehmet Murat ildan
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch out when the bad treats you well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.
Orhan Pamuk
To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s a myth that an entrepreneur cannot work in a corporation. It’s all in the mindset.
young turks
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.
Orhan Pamuk
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Orhan Pamuk
Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. It makes no difference to me whether that place belongs to Muslims, Christians, or Jews. I believe that the saints are beyond such trivial nominal distinctions. A saint belongs to all humanity.
Elif Shafak
Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won’t be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
End of the SummerIt was end of the summerAnd my heart was brokenbut i was smiling, laughing, making jokesLike there was nothing bleeding insideAs always.
Arzum Uzun
When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bleeding for a decadeFor a decade,We bleed like there is no hell but the earthWe bleed like we were born to dare We bleed like there is nothing alive inside.We find a clueAfter a decadeBleeding is just to breathSimply keeps us alive.
Arzum Uzun
Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a ‘we must do something universe,’ it is a ‘we must be serious universe!’ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, ‘waiting’ must be abolished!
Mehmet Murat ildan