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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!"
"Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!"
"One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy."
"It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!"
"The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!"
"Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!"
"Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!"
"Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media!"
"To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature!"
"What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!"
"You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!"
"One face of the cloud sees the sun, other face of the cloud sees the darkness! To survive in this universe, you must do the same! See the sun, see the darkness! Enjoy the life, but prepare for the worst as well!"
"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!"
"If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don't you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates."
"There is no rain beyond the clouds, there is no humanity beyond the compassion!"
"Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don't! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!"
"You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don't be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!"
"Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can't forget the thing you haven't learned yet!"
"When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!"
"World is brighter with the happiness of children."
"In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!"
"Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!"
"Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!"
"When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!"
"The path to tranquility gets through the storms!"
"If you are happy with the journey you can give up the destination!"
"Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!"
"If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real 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!"
"What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!"
"Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!"
"The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother's weak shoulders which carry three children!"
"In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!"
"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!"
"For a child, parents' warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly."
"Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!"
"It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!"
"When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!"
"Let those who live never forget those who died!"
"A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!"
"A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!"
"A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!"
"If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!"
"Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!"
"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!"
"For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!"
"No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower."
"Watch yourself from different angles so that you can understand better who you really are!"
"Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!"
"To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!"
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