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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!"

"This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!"

"There is no country on earth which does need no revolution!"

"The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!"

"Let the 'why not' philosophy be your life principle!"

"There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!"

"The things which give joy to you may also give you horror!"

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

"For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!"

"Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!"

"World is full of lost lives, full of unfortunate souls ruined in the name of unreasonable religious rules!"

"If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!"

"Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness, great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!"

"Stick to the honesty and never leave it!"

"Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don't have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!"

"Sun shines with its light, flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses."

"It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!"

"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"

"You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!"

"A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!"

"How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!"

"When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!"

"Life starts with the birth, success starts with the challenge!"

"A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!"

"You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people's own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people's life!"

"Smile creates love and peace, love and peace create smile."

"Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!"

"Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations."

"Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!"

"There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!"

"Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!"

"A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside, an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!"

"If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!"

"The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!"

"A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!"

"The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!"

"Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!"

"Sun must set so that we can long for its rise!"

"We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!"

"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"

"One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!"

"Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!"

"Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!"

"Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!"

"A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!"

"In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!"

"To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful, to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!"

"You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!"

"Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire, otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!"

"What do we see when we look at our Earth from the space? We see a giant present given to us by the evolutionary processes! To love and to protect this cosmic present is the most supreme duty of every living person!"
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