Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 24

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every morning is a revolution against the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy’s book!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart is. As for the balm, it will heal your wounds, both inside and outside.
Elif Shafak
A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.
Orhan Pamuk
When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.
Orhan Pamuk
Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much more things than the path of known!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.
Orhan Pamuk
What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
Orhan Pamuk
Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness
Orhan Pamuk
I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements.
Orhan Pamuk
Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows.
Elif Shafak
Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I’m nothing great. But I’m a rose… I’m a rose whether I’m admired or not, I’m a rose whether anyone’s crazy about me or not… Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose… But, do you know what it means to be a rose, my friend? Being a rose means ‘freedom.’ It means not existing by the praises of Others or not ceasing to exist by their disapproval.
Serdar Özkan
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
Orhan Pamuk
What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.
Orhan Pamuk
Before embarking on a voyage, first speak with the ancient sailors, listen to and understand the winds, then patiently make a boat and sail. Yet, even then, be open to other dreams, changes, circumstances. Throughout our lives, we limit ourselves to fixed goals, only to get on the local ferry and just travel the distance between two known points. Yet, we create an illusion of freedom and choice, accompanied by a sense of independence. Thus, we carefully study weather reports, ride on the port side on odd numbered days, starboard on holidays, have tea at fixed times, never speak with those who wear glasses, always smile at those who wear green and of course allow ourselves just the slight possibility of a dream about jumping ship and going off to our island one day. C'est la vie? Our predictably totalitarian lives are an insult to the human spirit.
Gündüz Vassaf
If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is a miracle and your most important goal in life is to protect this miracle. You have one more goal which is as important as this one and that is to protect the other miracles, the lives of others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!
Mehmet Murat ildan