Turkish Literature Quotes - Page 2

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

Mehmet Murat ildan

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

Mehmet Murat ildan

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

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

To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!

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

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

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 you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

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

Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

Mehmet Murat ildan

An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man!

Mehmet Murat ildan

While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

Mehmet Murat ildan

If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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