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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!"
"Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!"
"The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!"
"He who laughs and loves is always rich, he who sulks and hates is always poor!"
"A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!"
"If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!"
"Weak hand needs strong hand till it becomes a strong hand, weak mind needs strong mind till it becomes a strong mind!"
"Solitude is the rebel of the freedom."
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And 'to be remembered, to be respected' is a good sunshine; 'safety in the mine' is a good sunshine!"
"If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!"
"We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!"
"Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time!"
"Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!"
"Spring is not a season, it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!"
"You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!"
"Wear red and just be silent, don't even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!"
"Existence is more important than happiness; we can't live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!"
"There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!"
"After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!"
"Doing goodness creates shining, he who does goodness shines in the eyes and in the hearts of others!"
"Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!"
"Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!"
"For a great willpower, no road has length!"
"Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!"
"On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!"
"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
"If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!"
"Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!"
"The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!"
"When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!"
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
"Victory is a good wine, defeat is a good university!"
"Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice!"
"How long we live is much more important than how well we live!"
"Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain, anything usual makes you sleep!"
"Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!"
"If somebody praises you, change the topic!"
"Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!"
"Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!"
"In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!"
"There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life - the miracle given to you by the evolution - under all conditions!"
"Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!"
"If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!"
"Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!"
"Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish!"
"The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!"
"When everything seems too far away from you, don't despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!"
"When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!"
"You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!"
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