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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"Wear red and just be silent, don't even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!"
"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!"
"Existence is more important than happiness; we can't live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!"
"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!"
"After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!"
"Genius is both the sail and the wind, that's why he continues his journey without stopping!"
"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!"
"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"
"To read is to climb the high places!"
"Do not try to be attractive, just be natural because being natural is already attractive!"
"What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don't give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!"
"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!"
"Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!"
"A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!"
"Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a 'we must do something universe,' it is a 'we must be serious universe!' Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, 'waiting' must be abolished!"
"Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish!"
"When everything seems too far away from you, don't despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!"
"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!"
"The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God's Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God's Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!"
"If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!"
"Look at towards the future! If you see something, it is your imagination only! Because the future is not there yet, it has not born yet!"
"What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!"
"For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!"
"Whether you have teeth or not, smile! Because our world always needs a smile!"
"Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!"
"Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!"
"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!"
"How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?"
"When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!"
"We humans speak many languages, flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!"
"If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!"
"You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind's purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society!"
"The moment when kite becomes free, it will fall down!"
"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 a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!"
"Acquaintances are always abundant, friends are always scarce!"
"We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!"
"Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!"
"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"
"Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!"
"A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!"
"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!"
"Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!"
"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"
"Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you, keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you!"
"One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy."
"Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!"
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