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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!"
"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!"
"People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!"
"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!"
"Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!"
"It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!"
"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!"
"If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!"
"Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!"
"Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!"
"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!"
"Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!"
"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!"
"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth."
"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!"
"Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!"
"Hard roads are not opened by themselves, they are opened by some brave people!"
"Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!"
"There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!"
"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"
"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."
"Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!"
"We must thank to the crazy people because by looking at their achievements or the failures, we can decide whether we have to inject some craziness to our own lives or not!"
"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!"
"No path is irreversible, you just return back and walk!"
"What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!"
"To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature!"
"We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!"
"Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!"
"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!"
"Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!"
"Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!"
"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"
"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"
"To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?"
"Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace."
"If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?"
"No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!"
"When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!"
"Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!"
"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
"When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!"
"What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!"
"Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet, darkness can shine!"
"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"
"Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!"
"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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