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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served, the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!"
"An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!"
"A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!"
"Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!"
"If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don't lose time to think about it, do it right away!"
"Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!"
"When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!"
"World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!"
"It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!"
"Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!"
"A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!"
"If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!"
"Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!"
"Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!"
"We all have an artist within us, but not all of us help him to create wings on our bodies! Those who help will know the taste of the skies!"
"Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!"
"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"
"Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!"
"However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!"
"Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can't improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!"
"Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!"
"Earth is our only citadel in the universe, but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!"
"If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!"
"On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!"
"When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!"
"If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!"
"The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!"
"Sincere wishes come true."
"When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!"
"Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!"
"If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of impossibilities! Try to do the things which are beyond your powers; change your frontiers, create new ones! And then attack the new frontiers!"
"In every man's life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!"
"When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!"
"There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!"
"Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!"
"Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!"
"If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!"
"High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!"
"The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind."
"We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!"
"The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!"
"Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being's life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!"
"To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!"
"Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!"
"A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!"
"To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!"
"Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!"
"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!"
"Not every secret must be solved, some must be left as a mystery because we cannot bear a universe without mysteries!"
"Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!"
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