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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!"
"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
"The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!"
"It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!"
"What is a great success? You haven't hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven't ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven't lied? That is a great success! You haven't deceived a person? That's a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!"
"Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!"
"What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!"
"Just because you believe in something, you cannot expect others to respect for your belief! They may even make fun of it! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone! Something holy for you may be just a rubbish for others! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone!"
"When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!"
"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"
"You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!"
"Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!"
"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"
"Tragedy is not the second face of the life, but it is the very first face of it!"
"Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!"
"For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!"
"If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!"
"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
"Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!"
"If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!"
"If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!"
"Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!"
"Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!"
"There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!"
"Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!"
"If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!"
"Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country."
"A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community."
"The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!"
"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."
"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
"Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!"
"The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring."
"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"
"In action is the worst action of human beings!"
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
"Don't be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!"
"There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don't forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!"
"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"
"The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!"
"Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!"
"The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!"
"Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!"
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