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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next 'Get it!"

"Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!"

"The day you stop dreaming, you stop creating the future as well!"

"We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power."

"If your mind is misty, your life will be misty; if your mind is sunny, your life will be sunny! Your life will be the reflection of your mind, of your thoughts! If there is a candle in your mind, your life will not know what utter darkness is!"

"The kingdom of reflection is at the mercy of the wind!"

"Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!"

"The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!"

"Don't mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!"

"Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!"

"Mistakes are part of your life, it is impossible to live a mistake-free life! You have made mistakes and you shall make mistakes! Just let them be fewer and smaller!"

"While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!"

"Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give."

"If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy!"

"The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!"

"For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!"

"Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes!"

"An arrogant rich and a humble poor both need help! The former needs help to be human, the latter needs help to live humanely!"

"Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!"

"Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!"

"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

"What you believe might be wrong, what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!"

"Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!"

"Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior!"

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!"

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

"It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!"

"The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!"

"The easiest way to be immortal is to stop thinking and the easiest way to stop thinking is to work hard physically! Remember, when you don't think, you are immortal!"

"Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!"

"Don't ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!"

"Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!"

"Writer is a miner, he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material."

"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

"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!"

"The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!"

"It is often said that it's a man's world! We must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!"

"Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself!"

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"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!"

"From the same window, you keep seeing the same view!"

"Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!"

"Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!"

"Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!"

"If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!"

"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!"

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"
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