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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!"
"The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!"
"For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!"
"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"
"You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!"
"Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!"
"One-man regimes belong to old eras, they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!"
"Your most precious asset is your right thinking!"
"When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!"
"When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!"
"A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!"
"It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!"
"Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!"
"When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!"
"When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!"
"In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!"
"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"
"At the beginning Earth was a hell; then it became a heaven! Hell is the road leading to heaven! Chestnut tastes good after roasted! When the sand lives through hell, it becomes a beautiful glass!"
"Disappointment means that things haven't worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!"
"The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away from your herd to get closer to yourself, to find your true self you have lost in the herd!"
"Beautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning, try to see the end!"
"If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!"
"Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!"
"If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!"
"A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"
"We often think that earth is the ground where our houses are built; but scientifically saying, space is the ground and earth is the house built on that ground!"
"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
"The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!"
"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!"
"Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!"
"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?"
"In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!"
"In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!"
"An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!"
"An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!"
"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!"
"Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!"
"To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!"
"Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!"
"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"
"There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!"
"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"
"He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!"
"As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!"
"The place you look at for the salvation must be the science, not the skies!"
"Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!"
"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
"If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!"
"You become rich by helping the poor, you become rich also by helping the rich! Helping makes you rich!"
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