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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"What is your big project in the New Year? You don't have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!"

"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!"

"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

"In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!"

"Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!"

"As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face."

"Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!"

"Your mind is your tram, it will take you any station you wish!"

"Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!"

"Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!"

"A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!"

"Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!"

"Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself and no one ever will! Believe in yourself powerfully, especially when there is no reason left to believe in yourself because the ultimate bottom is the best place to start a big rise!"

"Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path."

"Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death."

"Face the truth or the truth will face you!"

"When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!"

"Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!"

"Beautiful winter means beautiful spring! When you look at a great winter scenery, see the flowers, see the bees, see the butterflies, they are all there!"

"If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!"

"The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!"

"You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!"

"They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!"

"To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!"

"The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!"

"The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!"

"Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!"

"What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!"

"What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!"

"People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!"

"Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!"

"A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known clichA© paths!"

"If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!"

"Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!"

"When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!"

"Sun is a cosmic hand which tries to reach you wherever you are!"

"The joy of life is being able to do the things we wish to do!"

"He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!"

"If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught!"

"Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!"

"The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!"

"If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!"

"You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!"

"If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!"

"Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!"

"A happy face is also a source of happiness!"

"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

"All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!"

"The first dance is the worst dance, the last dance is the best dance! All the roads of persistent practice lead to the Land of Perfection!"
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