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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!"
"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"
"When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!"
"There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!"
"Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don't get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!"
"A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!"
"Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!"
"What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!"
"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!"
"History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!"
"No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!"
"When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!"
"The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!"
"When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!"
"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"
"Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!"
"When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!"
"Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!"
"Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!"
"Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!"
"Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!"
"Night becomes day only when the sun appears, dark man becomes good man only when the compassion appears!"
"Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!"
"You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!"
"Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!"
"A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!"
"Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!"
"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?"
"Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!"
"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!"
"Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!"
"Flexibility is an art of creating way outs within the cul-de-sacs!"
"Every morning is a revolution against the darkness!"
"If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?"
"As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!"
"Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!"
"He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!"
"You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!"
"Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!"
"A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself!"
"Life is foggy, always try to see what lies behind the fog!"
"Your mind is your spirit, do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!"
"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"
"Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!"
"A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies!"
"Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!"
"Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten."
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