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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"
"Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold."
"If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!"
"Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!"
"You walk and walk and walk and then you look at back and see your youth, so far away from you, so young, so curious, so hopeful, so breezy, so brave! To feel young in old age, remember your youth very often! Remind yourself frequently what you were once!"
"Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don't try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!"
"A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!"
"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"
"There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!"
"When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!"
"For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!"
"Do the dreams have also their own dreams? Yes they have and those dreams also have their own dreams! So when you create a dream, you create infinite number of dreams! When you dream of a beautiful house, then that beautiful house will create new dreams!"
"When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!"
"If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!"
"You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!"
"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."
"A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!"
"Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!"
"There are many you's within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you's!"
"If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!"
"If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don't lose time to think about it, do it right away!"
"Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!"
"Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!"
"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!"
"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
"Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!"
"The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!"
"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!"
"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
"Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!"
"For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!"
"In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!"
"Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!"
"Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!"
"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!"
"To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!"
"Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!"
"To reach your target quicker, don't lose your time by looking back!"
"Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!"
"When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!"
"True thinking brings a good life!"
"Are you comfortable? That's good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!"
"You can't walk till the end on an active railway line and you can't walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!"
"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"
"Having a finite life in an infinite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in a finite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in an infinite universe, now, that means something!"
"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!"
"If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!"
"Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!"
"It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves."
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