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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"A country where a devil is sitting at the throne turns into a real hell!"

"Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!"

"Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!"

"No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!"

"Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!"

"Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!"

"By walking on the path of unhappiness you can learn the things that can never be learned on the path of happiness! He who knows well only the light is very poor, he who knows well the darkness besides the light is very rich!"

"A limited mind will have a limited world!"

"Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!"

"Some ideas take you to the stars, some sinks you to the mud!"

"Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!"

"No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!"

"Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!"

"May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!"

"When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!"

"In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!"

"Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead."

"A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!"

"Don't swear at your past, you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!"

"Think something better so that something better can happen!"

"Something right in the morning can turn into something wrong in the afternoon! Even if you are on the right path, you must still question the rightness of your path! Conditions perpetually change! Update your path and your travel constantly!"

"Watch yourself from different angles so that you can understand better who you really are!"

"The greatest magic of life is that all things in life can be changed!"

"Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!"

"There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!"

"Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!"

"Space is a windless silent place, just like the mind of a wise man!"

"If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!"

"When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!"

"Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!"

"A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!"

"Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!"

"Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!"

"If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!"

"Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!"

"Any second can be the beginning of anything, any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe!"

"You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!"

"Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!"

"You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!"

"It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!"

"Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!"

"High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!"

"Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!"

"An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!"

"It is good to think; but to think in a right way, that is great!"

"Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!"

"Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!"

"Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top!"

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!"
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