Quotes About Understanding

You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it again, and thus understand that which is difficult and, with it, understand life as well.

Ä°nsan hepsini ayn? anda düÅŸünemiyor ama görebiliyordu. Akl?mdaki kelimelerin, akl?mdaki hayallere yetiÅŸememesi gibi bir ÅŸeydi bu. Kelimeler duygular?ma yetiÅŸemiyor ve yetersiz kal?yorlard?.

When I was far from Füsun, the world troubled me; it was a puzzle whose pieces were all out of place. The moment I saw her, they all fit back together, reminding me that the world was a beautiful, meaningful whole where I could relax.

You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life.

Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might be; I only fantasized about her.

Mevlut cinselliÄŸin ancak beklemekle, beklemekle gerçekleÅŸecek bir mucize olduÄŸunu on beÅŸ ya??nda böyle anlad?

YaÅŸad???m?z hayat?n bir baÅŸkas?n?n düÅŸü olduÄŸunu kan?tlaman?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeyeceÄŸini biliyordum art?k.

love is deep attention, deep compassion...

Lee poco pero con gusto, parecerás más leído que el que lo hace mucho pero aburrido.

I don't want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning.

When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of all the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair.

Çok hata ettim, ona hava att?m, onunla arkadaÅŸ olamad?m," dedi Süleyman. "Ama o da çok sivri dilliydi. Kimse, k?zlarla nas?l konuÅŸulur, bu zor iÅŸin s?rr?n? bize öÄŸretmedi. Bir erkekle konuÅŸur gibi, ama hiç küfür etmeden konuÅŸuyordum. Olmad?

Köpekler bizden olmayan? sezer, anlar. Onlarda bu haslet Allah vergisidir. Bu yüzden Avrupal?lar? taklit etmek isteyenler köpeklerden korkar. Osmanl?'n?n belkemiÄŸi Yeniçerileri katlederek Bat?l?lar'a bizi ezdiren II. Mahmut Ä°stanbul'un köpeklerini de katletmiÅŸ, öldüremediklerini Hay?rs?zada'ya sürgün etmiÅŸti.

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

Drve?e ne zna da je drve?e.

Him…. If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.

El significado de los colores es que están ante nosotros y podemos verlos - le contestó el otro -. No se puede explicar el rojo a quien no lo ha visto.

Una carta no dice lo que quiere decir sólo con lo que está escrito. Las cartas, como los libros, se leen también oliéndolas, tocándolas, manoseándolas.

Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanlar? kararl?l?kla anlamama, romanc?l?k ise anlama iÅŸidir.

Only imbeciles are innocent.

Edebi romana, büyük romanlara, hayat? anlamland?racak bir rehber gibi ihtiyaç duymam?z?n nedeni, kendimizi dünyada evde hissedememizdir.

we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region.

yo no quiero ser un árbol, sino su significado.

Hayati ciddiye almayi, gencligimde romanlari ciddiye alarak ogrendim. Edebi romanlar bize hayati ciddiye almayi, her seyin elimizde oldugunu, kisisel kararlarimizin hayatimizi sekillendirdigini gostererek ogretir.