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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Meditation is mind's vacation!"
"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!"
"When the lost doesn't want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!"
"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!"
"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"
"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!"
"If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!"
"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"
"If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!"
"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
"Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!"
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!"
"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!"
"The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!"
"Tragedy is not the second face of the life, but it is the very first face of it!"
"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!"
"Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!"
"A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!"
"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!"
"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
"However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!"
"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
"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!"
"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"
"To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!"
"Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!"
"A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!"
"No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!"
"Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!"
"Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!"
"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!"
"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"
"Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country."
"No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn't born yet!"
"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."
"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!"
"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"
"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!"
"Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way, it is just a darkness and you can still walk in the darkness till you reach the light!"
"Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!"
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