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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!"
"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"
"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!"
"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
"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!"
"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
"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!"
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
"No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!"
"You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!"
"When climbing, you don't have to put your foot on every step, jump over some of them! When solving your problems, you don't have to solve each and every one, jump over some of them!"
"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!"
"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
"Inaction is the worst action of human beings!"
"He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!"
"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."
"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
"It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!"
"Tragedy is not the second face of the life, but it is the very first face of it!"
"The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!"
"The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!"
"A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!"
"The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring."
"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
"Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!"
"Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!"
"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!"
"Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!"
"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!"
"Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!"
"If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don't forget, violence makes you a low man!"
"In action is the worst action of human beings!"
"If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!"
"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."
"The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!"
"What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!"
"Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!"
"When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!"
"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!"
"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!"
"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"
"To give light to others, you must first take light from others!"
"Unless you accept anyone to be your boss, no man can be your boss!"
"By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!"
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