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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye."

"In life, there is only one way to exist: To struggle!"

"To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind!"

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!"

"Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!"

"Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don't worry; even if you can't find it, a new hope will come and find you!"

"Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism, but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!"

"If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!"

"You will find angels everywhere if you just stop looking for a supernatural being with feathered wings. When you see the sunshine through the clouds in a cold day, there the angel is! Anything good, anything useful, anything which gives you peace, they are all real angels! Look around you, you will see thousands of angels!"

"Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!"

"Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!"

"By disappearing in the Land of Nature, you appear in the Land of Wisdom!"

"Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!"

"Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!"

"A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity, a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!"

"Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!"

"To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude."

"Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!"

"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!"

"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"

"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!"

"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"

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

"Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!"

"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!"

"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!"

"Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!"

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

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

"The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!"

"Being alive and helping others to stay alive is the greatest personal success!"

"Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!"

"Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!"

"For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!"

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

"Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!"

"Crying has no potential for solving the problems!"

"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!"

"You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn't matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!"

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

"Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!"

"One can easily forget his destination when walking in a marvellous path towards his destination! The attraction of the path can be much stronger than the attraction of the target!"

"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!"
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