Quotes about turkish-literature

A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!

Find a right and a beautiful idea stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!

Right path will not always look like a right path wrong path will not always look like a wrong path!

Don’t behave in accordance with the conditions make the conditions behave in accordance with yourself!

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

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

Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!

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

Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!

He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!

Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much more things than the path of known!

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!

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

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!

How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!

If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!

If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!

To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

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!

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!

The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!

Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!

If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!

We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!

Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!

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!

May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!

Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!

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

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!

Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!

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!

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!

You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!

No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!

When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty!

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!

The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!

Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!

Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!

He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!

The best dancer is the one who isn’t even aware that she is dancing!

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!

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!

Stick to the honesty and never leave it!

If you can’t control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!

For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!

In life there are times where you have to behave like twilight streets: Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t even dream, just be silent and wait for the light to shine on you!

When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!

Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!

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!

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

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!

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

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

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

You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!

For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!

To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!