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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"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!"

"Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!"

"Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!"

"When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!"

"The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!"

"Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!"

"For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!"

"Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!"

"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"

"There is no rain beyond the clouds, there is no humanity beyond the compassion!"

"The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!"

"Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!"

"Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!"

"A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!"

"If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live."

"The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don't be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!"

"Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!"

"When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!"

"Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!"

"Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!"

"Some boats are rotten in the ports, some boats shine in the hard journeys!"

"Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!"

"Future is a car with brake failure, it is moving towards us at a very high speed."

"Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!"

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"Telling the right thing is not enough, it has to be told effectively!"

"A new world order can only be created if we establish an order where the powerful wolf cannot eat the weak lamb!"

"In the future, you will always encounter the past!"

"The worst mistakes of your past can be the best lights of your future!"

"If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!"

"Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!"

"The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!"

"The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!"

"To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!"

"Until we will be able to shape the universe the way we wanted, mankind will not be taken seriously by the universe and he shall remain as insignificant ants of the universe!"

"Not only try but try your best!"

"Admire all the stars, but what you really must admire is your very own Sun, the cosmic candle of our beloved Earth!"

"What is rain? It is thousands of drop-friends coming from the sky!"

"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

"A man who gets up very early creates a new day within the same day!"

"Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!"

"If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!"

"The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!"

"If you are happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!"

"A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in."

"Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!"

"Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year, only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!"

"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!"
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