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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!"
"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"
"Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!"
"With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!"
"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"
"The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans."
"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
"The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!"
"The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school, over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly!"
"Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!"
"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
"Sometimes you find your way and sometimes way finds you!"
"In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!"
"He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!"
"You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!"
"Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!"
"When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!"
"In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!"
"Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle's eye!"
"Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!"
"Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!"
"What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!"
"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
"Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!"
"Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!"
"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
"There is only one autumn in a year, but in people's life, there are many autumns in one year!"
"An empty street sucks your fullness, a full street fills your emptiness!"
"Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!"
"Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!"
"If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!"
"Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!"
"If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!"
"Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!"
"Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!"
"You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!"
"If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!"
"Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!"
"Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives."
"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!"
"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!"
"Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent!"
"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"
"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"
"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!"
"No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!"
"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in, every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!"
"All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!"
"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"
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