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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!"
"If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!"
"When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!"
"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
"Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!"
"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
"Important decisions that will affect a nation's fate or humanity's fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history, they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!"
"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
"Did you have a sad day? Don't worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don't worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!"
"Careful minds build durable buildings, careless minds build rotten buildings!"
"Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality."
"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"
"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
"Visit your life, because you are spending too much time in others life! Visit yourself!"
"An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!"
"Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don't get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!"
"You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!"
"Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!"
"To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!"
"The untrue things don't deserve to be respected!"
"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
"If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!"
"Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!"
"The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!"
"Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word 'waiting' out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!"
"When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!"
"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"
"The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!"
"What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!"
"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"
"Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!"
"You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!"
"Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!"
"Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!"
"To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic!"
"If you see a big danger ahead, don't start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!"
"To sulk is to create a noise, to smile is to create a music."
"Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!"
"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"
"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"
"A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!"
"Our dreams seldom approach us, the rule is this: We must approach them!"
"Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!"
"There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!"
"Little cats mean little kids, little kids mean little cats!"
"The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!"
"Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!"
"Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!"
"You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!"
"You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!"
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