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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!"
"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"
"When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!"
"There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other's life!"
"Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!"
"Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free!"
"Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker!"
"Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!"
"The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!"
"If one part of a country is watching football match while the other part of the same country is under heavy attacks by the rockets, then we can say that there is no nation in that country, but there is only crowd of people!"
"Every morning brings thousands of opportunities, and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!"
"Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!"
"It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!"
"What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!"
"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!"
"Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!"
"You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?"
"Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay."
"Do not try to be attractive, just be natural because being natural is already attractive!"
"A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!"
"Library: The Temple of the Wise!"
"No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!"
"Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!"
"A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth's position in the universe!"
"Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious."
"Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!"
"For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!"
"For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!"
"Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming, it won't be helpful for the solution!"
"Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything, man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing!"
"There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!"
"In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet!"
"Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!"
"If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!"
"Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!"
"We humans speak many languages, flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!"
"No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!"
"A house without security cannot be a home!"
"A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!"
"A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!"
"Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!"
"If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!"
"Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!"
"How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!"
"Cosmos and its stars, poet and his poetry!"
"Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise!"
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!"
"Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign, some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation!"
"If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!"
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