Turkish Literature Quotes - Page 2

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

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

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

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

Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!

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

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

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!

It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!

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!

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

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

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!

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!

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

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!

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!

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!

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!

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!

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!

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

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!

Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!

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!

Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!

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!

Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

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!

Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise!

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!

One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!

Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!

Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!

You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!