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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!"

"Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!"

"It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!"

"For your shadow, you are his shadow!"

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."

"Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open, let everything enters the house!"

"By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!"

"Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!"

"Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!"

"Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!"

"The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!"

"Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!"

"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"

"You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!"

"Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master!"

"The politicians of your country will always try to encircle you with the high walls of lies! You must know that the truth is beyond the walls and without meeting the truth you cannot meet the freedom!"

"Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!"

"If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness."

"Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!"

"One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!"

"Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!"

"A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!"

"Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!"

"In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!"

"People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!"

"For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!"

"When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!"

"You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!"

"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

"Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!"

"What you believe might be wrong, what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!"

"Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!"

"The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!"

"If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!"

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!"

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

"It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!"

"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"

"The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!"

"Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!"

"Don't ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!"

"Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!"

"Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!"

"Writer is a miner, he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material."

"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"
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