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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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 happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!"
"We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!"
"Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe, but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the bad guys!"
"The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!"
"When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!"
"If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!"
"Luck is a strong horse, it can carry man to very distant places!"
"You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!"
"A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!"
"When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!"
"You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!"
"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"
"You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe."
"If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!"
"There is no rural life in a countryman's dream and there is no city life in a townsman's dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!"
"This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!"
"The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!"
"When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!"
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
"Hard long roads create tough men, dangerous hostile paths create powerful people! Great difficulties create giant guys!"
"If there is a powerful light within you, it will be clearly visible to others!"
"The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!"
"There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!"
"No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!"
"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
"Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!"
"A warm house is the best New Year present for every child!"
"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"
"The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!"
"Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!"
"No path is irreversible, you just return back and walk!"
"Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud, the universe does not care about you!"
"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"
"We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!"
"If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!"
"The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!"
"Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!"
"To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!"
"When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!"
"Sometimes all you need in your life is anything strange because strange things can revive your soul just like a cold water freshening your pale face with every splash!"
"Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!"
"Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!"
"To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?"
"To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!"
"A day without laugh is a day without life."
"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"
"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
"If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!"
"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!"
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