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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!"
"You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!"
"In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!"
"Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!"
"You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!"
"Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!"
"It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!"
"In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!"
"Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!"
"In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!"
"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!"
"If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!"
"People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!"
"No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!"
"Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!"
"With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!"
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
"In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don't forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!"
"If you stuck in the past, you won't be able to step in the future!"
"Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!"
"Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!"
"When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!"
"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?"
"It is not enough to protect the source of the light, the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us!"
"In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty."
"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don't have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!"
"Let your mind start your new journey firstly, let it travel on that road and then it will come back to you. After then you can start this journey both with your mind and with your body!"
"To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!"
"When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!"
"In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!"
"What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!"
"When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!"
"To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!"
"No child's face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!"
"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!"
"The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking, the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!"
"To read is to climb the high places!"
"What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!"
"The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us."
"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!"
"Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!"
"Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!"
"Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!"
"A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!"
"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!"
"There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!"
"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!"
"An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not, your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!"
"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"
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