Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 6

When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!
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
Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Universe is a paradise of beautiful hidden doors.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rain just rains, it does nothing else. Wisdom just rains, it does nothing else! And those who get the rain get the miracles hidden inside the rain and create their own miracles!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of ‘-isms’ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist…I wasn’t interested in any religion and the difference between ‘religiosity’ and ‘spirituality’ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn’t interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.
Elif Shafak
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let those who live never forget those who died!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?
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
When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes the bridge that leads to heaven is the very hell itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believers are each other's mirrors.
Elif Shafak
Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!
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
You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!
Mehmet Murat ildan