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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
"A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!"
"We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!"
"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"
"By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!"
"When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!"
"The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!"
"There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities."
"For those who sit on the stairs, a good quote is a strong invitation to stand up and to go up the stairs!"
"If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!"
"Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!"
"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"
"Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!"
"Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!"
"Silence and creativity are very close friends!"
"Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!"
"If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!"
"We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!"
"If you have taught your child how to walk when he is all alone, it means that you have taught him everything!"
"Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!"
"If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!"
"Imperialism means raping other nations, imperialist means rapist!"
"Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!"
"The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!"
"People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!"
"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!"
"If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!"
"When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!"
"We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!"
"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!"
"Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!"
"Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!"
"Don't let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!"
"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!"
"Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!"
"Hard roads are not opened by themselves, they are opened by some brave people!"
"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!"
"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!"
"If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!"
"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"
"Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!"
"If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too."
"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"
"Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!"
"If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?"
"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!"
"For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!"
"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!"
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