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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!"
"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"
"What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!"
"By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!"
"A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!"
"To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!"
"Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander."
"Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!"
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
"Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny!"
"When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!"
"You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!"
"Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it!"
"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
"Leave city, leave reality; enter forest, enter fantasy!"
"The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!"
"It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!"
"A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!"
"All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!"
"The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!"
"As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!"
"In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!"
"If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!"
"The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!"
"When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!"
"The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!"
"Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!"
"Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!"
"You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade, it will eventually be caught by the light!"
"Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create..."
"Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!"
"Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!"
"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"
"The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!"
"Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!"
"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"
"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
"One can easily forget his destination when walking in a marvellous path towards his destination! The attraction of the path can be much stronger than the attraction of the target!"
"You will best realise the speed of life when you stop and watch the life!"
"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."
"Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!"
"Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!"
"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"
"It will be very fair to say that the moments of sincere laughing are the very best moments of life!"
"When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!"
"Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet."
"A soulless city creates soulless people!"
"Mankind has created many religions, most of them are long gone now and finally all will long gone! This truth is an irreversible truth!"
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