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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!"
"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
"No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!"
"A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!"
"Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!"
"Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!"
"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"
"Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!"
"You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!"
"Find a right and a beautiful idea, stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!"
"Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!"
"An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!"
"What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!"
"All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!"
"When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!"
"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
"When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view!"
"Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!"
"In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!"
"There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!"
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!"
"Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!"
"The most important thing about the 'next time' is that there may not be a next time!"
"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
"If you are a path-creator, you don't need a path!"
"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"
"To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!"
"Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!"
"Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!"
"In reality the concept of 'other nation' is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!"
"You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!"
"Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!"
"If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!"
"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"
"Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!"
"We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist."
"The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!"
"When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!"
"No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served, the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!"
"Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!"
"Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!"
"Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!"
"Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!"
"They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems' path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of 'test' at once!"
"Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell!"
"When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!"
"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
"Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!"
"Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies, the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!"
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