Turkish Quotations Quotes

“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

“The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Not only try but try your best!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!”
― 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 want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Curtains are our prisoners; they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Os cachorros são frequentemente mais felizes que os homens porque as coisas mais simples são as coisas mais fantásticas para eles.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Beni mahvetti. Gülüşüyle aklımı çeldi. Bakışıyla kalbimi mühürledi. Bahtıma yalnızca birkaç cilve düştü. Sonrasında ateşin çevresinde dönen bir pervane böceği oldum. Evet umutsuz ama belki bir umut bulurum diye darma duman”
― Deniz Canan, Larende'nin Düşüşü

“Av, savaşın yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre savaşı en iyi öğreten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde savaş ile av hemen hemen eş anlamlıydı ve genel kural olarak erişkin sayılabilmek için bir insanı öldürmek gerekiyordu, av başarısı da genellikle buna eş tutulurdu.”
― Jean-Paul Roux, Türklerin Tarihi: Pasifik'ten Akdeniz'e 2000 Yıl

“Benim dünya, benim sorumluluğum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Insan ben ve insanlari seviyorum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Nefes alamıyorum ben insanlar olmadan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Ben vicdan, ben saadet. Insanlara yardım etmek, benim ibadet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Ben geldim sana öğretmeye değil. Ben geldim seni sevmeye.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Her şey sizinle güzel, çünkü sizler benim saadet. Ben kurbanım sizin icin, çünkü hayatım sizin emanet.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism