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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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 cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!"
"If you are walking on the wrong path not knowingly, that is bad for you; if walking knowingly, that is stupid for you and if you lead others on the wrong path deliberately that is a shame for you!"
"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!"
"Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!"
"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."
"A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!"
"Double face in a person is no problem as long as both faces are more or less the same!"
"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!"
"There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!"
"We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?"
"Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!"
"Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!"
"Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!"
"Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!"
"Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!"
"You cannot forever escape from the storm, you must learn to stand up to it!"
"Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!"
"You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!"
"No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!"
"Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!"
"Don't let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!"
"Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!"
"Existence has billions of doors, but death has none!"
"Universe is a paradise of beautiful hidden doors."
"You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!"
"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"
"A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!"
"Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!"
"When you see a heron eating an innocent rabbit, what comes to your mind? Do you say 'What a great order God has created?' or you say 'What a devilish horror is going on here!' Question your beliefs! If the strong eats the weak, there is absolutely nothing divine in here, but there is only injustice and nightmare!"
"In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!"
"You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches, badness impoverishes!"
"The moon belongs to the lovers? Yes! But it also belongs to the lonely! It belongs to anyone who needs it!"
"If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!"
"No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!"
"The reflection is as real as the reflected till you touch it!"
"If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!"
"If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?"
"We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!"
"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"
"Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized!"
"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
"Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!"
"The best thing you can give a person is the courage and the desire to go beyond his culture, that little limited world of his!"
"Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!"
"For an infinite journey, we need an endless road, an immortal vehicle and an eternal body!"
"Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!"
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