Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 8

This he had noticed while doing his military service back in Turkey. When more than three people slept in a narrow place, sooner or later their breaths would become synchronized. Perhaps it was God's way of telling us that if we could just let go of ourselves, we would all eventually be in step and there would be no more disputes.
Elif Shafak
There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first place. They feel so guilty about the suffering of the poor, and are so keen to share it, that they make their lives miserable on purpose.
Orhan Pamuk
It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A life without goal is a ship without rudder!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Little cats mean little kids, little kids mean little cats!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Orhan Pamuk
If you are a sparrow, don’t attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don’t attack the sparrow; be just!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .
Elif Shafak
Library: The Temple of the Wise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life moments arrive where the mouth becomes tongueless and the eyes become tongue!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain’t any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don’t be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Today’s warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a great willpower, no road has length!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The universe has no mind and that’s why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Japan!everything in details perfection.
Baris Gencel
Ours was a history of well intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.
Enver Aysever
If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storms are good friends because they light up the way to wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan