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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"
"He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!"
"Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it!"
"If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!"
"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!"
"A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!"
"To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!"
"Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!"
"Whether you have teeth or not, smile! Because our world always needs a smile!"
"You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!"
"I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren't we all a little crazy anyway?"
"You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!"
"When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!"
"If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!"
"Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!"
"Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!"
"For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!"
"Do your job well without expecting any appreciation, then you will see that all the appreciation will come onto you just like the summer rains coming onto the thirsty flowers! Just do your job well!"
"A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!"
"A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!"
"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!"
"A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!"
"The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!"
"Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions."
"Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of 'mature cataract' surgery!"
"If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!"
"We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!"
"When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!"
"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
"You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!"
"A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!"
"A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!"
"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
"When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!"
"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"
"Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!"
"Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!"
"If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!"
"When you make a child happy, the best gift you will ever get will be the smile of that child!"
"When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!"
"By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars."
"A silent street always welcome a good music!"
"The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!"
"Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!"
"A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!"
"When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!"
"A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!"
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