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They asked us about our future, we listed professions and spoke of dreams. We never mentioned happiness, because we were children. We did not know that life’s greatest achievement is to carry a peaceful heart.
— Söz Bahçesi
→You are the homeland where my heart finds refuge, The longing my soul cannot let go of. Like a dream that grows as I draw near, And drifts farther away the more I reach it.
— Söz Bahçesi
→We too once spoke like spring, leaving a flower in every heart we touched. Mistaking thorns for friends, we learned that not every smile is friendship. Now we are silent… For some silences are born not of hurt, but of a heart that has matured.
— Söz Bahçesi
→Pain can be spoken of, yet it does not find an echo in every heart. What exhausts a person is not the sorrow itself, but the silence waiting to be understood.
— Söz Bahçesi
→Are you hurt by the hand that did not hold yours, or angry at yourself for reaching out to a hand that never would?
— Mevlana
→Even if doomsday breaks out inside me, I am the spring of my tomorrows, I bloom after every winter.
— Nazım Hikmet
→For years I walked in the crowds of others, yet inside me there was a lonely soul quietly waiting to be discovered. I owed it to myself to find them.
— Söz Bahçesi
→We sacrificed youth to tomorrow before its time, We left the heart captive in a reproachful love. Leaf by leaf, we destroyed the most beautiful fortunes, And then, we wasted a whole life in the embrace of nothingness.
— Söz Bahçesi
→When you share the light within you, question the sincerity of those who immediately turn their faces to the shadow. Eyes that do not shine with your joy are the ones most likely to leave you halfway.
— Söz Bahçesi
→Keep your tongue from complaining. Once you adopt these states into your essence, everything will seem pleasant to you. If complaint is replaced by gratitude, Your life will change.
— Abdülkadir Geylani
→Ignoring is not naivety, it is intelligence. If you respond to everything, you will burn out. If you listen to every voice, you will lose your mind. Deliberately ignoring some things Is protecting your soul.
— Yıldız Kenter
→I have a weakness for people who know how to appreciate value. They are kaftans adorned with pearls, while the rest are just patched rags.
— Anonim
→I am at the point where he said: “While loving you, I hurt myself deeply.” I used to think, “Everyone could hurt everyone else, but you could never hurt me.” I was tested by what I believed.
— Cemal Süreyya
→Do not force the body to laugh while the heart wants to grieve.
— Gassal
→I love things that cannot be bought. Like the sea, like the sky, like the moon, like the sun, and like love.
— Sabahattin Ali
→I have seen many worms in apples, but never in lemons. Sometimes it is better not to be too sweet to people.
— Anonim
→You tell of not being able to come, let me tell of not being able to go. It was not my eyes but my heart that stayed, not waiting but longing that wore me out. As they say; Love was a road caught between two worlds, those who left never returned. Greetings to all, but yearning for you.
— Nazım Hikmet
→Waters always flowed and passed, Dried up, their time has passed. Many a khan, many a sultan, Left their thrones and passed. The world is but a window, Each guest just looked and passed.
— Yunus Emre
→I don’t know what love is! I’m old-fashioned. I only know you, And how my heart tightens whenever your name is mentioned.
— Cemal Süreyya
→If you are going to love someone, love their inside, not their outside. Anyone can love what they see; But you, you must love what is unseen. Because true love is not seen with the eyes, but with the heart.
— Yunus Emre
→Time is a matter of choice, not of availability. Someone who calls you does so not because they have plenty of time, but because of how much they value you. Stop believing those who say "I didn't have time"; their priorities are just different. Because a person finds an excuse for everything they don't care about, but finds a way for everything they do.
— Söz Bahçesi
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