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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"
"For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!"
"If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!"
"Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!"
"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!"
"If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!"
"For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!"
"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!"
"For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our 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!"
"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 need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!"
"Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!"
"Crowds don't think; they act; they don't produce ideas, they produce actions!"
"Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!"
"A night without stars is a night wasted."
"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
"Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!"
"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
"Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!"
"You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!"
"In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!"
"The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!"
"Soil is earth's barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!"
"To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!"
"If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!"
"Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!"
"Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!"
"Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!"
"There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!"
"To reach your target quicker, don't lose your time by looking back!"
"We can't remember things from our future, remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!"
"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
"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!"
"We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!"
"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!"
"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!"
"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!"
"Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!"
"Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!"
"Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!"
"The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!"
"Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!"
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