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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"When mind is so easy, body becomes so tranquil and so fearless."
"Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!"
"Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!"
"The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!"
"Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!"
"If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!"
"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"
"You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in the world of others, listen to what they speak and learn what they think! In short, get out of your puddle, sail to the ocean! Move, friend, move out of your country!"
"When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!"
"Powerful words always travel the whole world!"
"When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!"
"If you don't hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!"
"Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!"
"If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!"
"A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!"
"Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!"
"Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!"
"Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!"
"Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!"
"You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man's mind is the mind looking at everywhere!"
"Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!"
"Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality."
"We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!"
"To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!"
"To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!"
"No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!"
"No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!"
"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
"If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!"
"Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!"
"Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!"
"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"
"If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!"
"The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!"
"There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!"
"There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences."
"Sometimes the bridge that leads to heaven is the very hell itself!"
"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"
"Full mind is the mind of stupid man, empty mind is the mind of wise man!"
"Water is happy when it falls, water is happy when it rises! We call this as wisdom!"
"Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!"
"The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!"
"Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!"
"Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!"
"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"
"In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!"
"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"
"To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic!"
"An endless path is frightening but the path that ends is even more frightening!"
"Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!"
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