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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take you right to the stars and the beyond! And such are the thoughts of Buddha!"

"Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!"

"Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!"

"A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!"

"Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!"

"A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!"

"Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!"

"The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!"

"Curtains are our prisoners, they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!"

"Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions."

"Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!"

"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"

"Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!"

"If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!"

"You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!"

"The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!"

"Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!"

"A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!"

"Wise man is a good Sherpa, he takes you to the highest places!"

"We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!"

"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"

"Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn't find such a path yet!"

"The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!"

"If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!"

"When you make a child happy, the best gift you will ever get will be the smile of that child!"

"There are no flowers in the Moon, that's why the Moon is a boring place!"

"A silent street always welcome a good music!"

"The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!"

"Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!"

"When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!"

"If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!"

"Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don't! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!"

"Death must die so that life can be real!"

"Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open your curtain at night, then the Moon will visit you!"

"To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!"

"Winning a game is good, but winning a game together with winning your rival's heart too is brilliant and this is a real winning!"

"Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor's poverty!"

"Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!"

"Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!"

"Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!"

"You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!"

"We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!"

"When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!"

"Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!"

"The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother's weak shoulders which carry three children!"

"The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!"

"For people have four shadows, four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces!"

"Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!"

"Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won't be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!"
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