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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Death must die so that life can be real!"
"Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!"
"Winning a game is good, but winning a game together with winning your rival's heart too is brilliant and this is a real winning!"
"The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!"
"Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!"
"We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!"
"Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!"
"If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren't only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!"
"When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!"
"Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!"
"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!"
"For people have four shadows, four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces!"
"Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!"
"A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!"
"What is your big project in the New Year? You don't have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!"
"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
"We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!"
"By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!"
"A new world order can only be created if we establish an order where the powerful wolf cannot eat the weak lamb!"
"Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!"
"In the future, you will always encounter the past!"
"The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!"
"Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!"
"A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!"
"The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!"
"Face the truth or the truth will face you!"
"When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!"
"Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!"
"Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!"
"Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!"
"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!"
"They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!"
"When your dream dies, create another dream; don't waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don't stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!"
"Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!"
"The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!"
"The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!"
"If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!"
"Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!"
"What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog. What a great genius this water is!"
"The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!"
"A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!"
"People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!"
"The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!"
"A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known clichA© paths!"
"It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!"
"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
"To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!"
"We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!"
"He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!"
"If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught!"
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