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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!"
"You can't make a high jump without high spirits!"
"Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!"
"John F. Kennedy says: 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don't leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!"
"We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!"
"Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!"
"Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe, but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the bad guys!"
"Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!"
"When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!"
"Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!"
"If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!"
"Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!"
"Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a watermill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good."
"Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent!"
"Our true appearance is our mind's appearance; whatever our mind's visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face!"
"Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!"
"You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!"
"You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe."
"Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!"
"You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!"
"In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!"
"Hard long roads create tough men, dangerous hostile paths create powerful people! Great difficulties create giant guys!"
"If there is a powerful light within you, it will be clearly visible to others!"
"A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!"
"The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!"
"A nation's people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world's nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!"
"No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!"
"Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!"
"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"
"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"
"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!"
"Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!"
"A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!"
"You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature."
"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"
"Sometimes all you need in your life is anything strange because strange things can revive your soul just like a cold water freshening your pale face with every splash!"
"If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too."
"Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!"
"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!"
"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
"Something good is a frontier, something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!"
"If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!"
"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!"
"You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!"
"The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!"
"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
"We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!"
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