Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 27

To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To give light to others, you must first take light from others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is mind’s vacation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.
Mehmet Murat ildan
You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?
Mehmet Murat ildan
What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.
Oktay Rifat
Sometimes all you need in your life is anything strange because strange things can revive your soul just like a cold water freshening your pale face with every splash!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.
Elif Shafak
I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.
Arzum Uzun
No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.
Elif Shafak
...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
Orhan Pamuk
No writer can be the ‘Master of the Words’ without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your words touch the hearts, that’s good; if your words touch the minds, that’s better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can save hundred words with just one look!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Powerful words always travel the whole world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A single word can brighten the faceof one who knows the value of words.Ripened in silence, a single wordacquires a great energy for work.War is cut short by a word,and a word heals the wounds,and there’s a word that changespoison into butterand honey.Let a word mature inside yourself.Withhold the unripened thought.Come and understand the kind of wordthat reduces money and riches to dust.Know when to speak a wordand when not to speak at all.A single word turns the universe of hellinto eight paradises.Follow the Way. Don’t be fooledby what you already know. Be watchful.Reflect before you speak.A foolish mouth can brand your soul.Yunus, say one last thingabout the power of words –Only the word “I”divides me from God.
Yunus Emre
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.
Elif Batuman
Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.
Elif Batuman
What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.
Elif Batuman
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.
Elif Shafak
Just because you believe in something, you cannot expect others to respect for your belief! They may even make fun of it! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone! Something holy for you may be just a rubbish for others! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won’t make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!
Mehmet Murat ildan