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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living."
"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"
"To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!"
"If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope."
"If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!"
"Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!"
"Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!"
"She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life."
"Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!"
"Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom."
"Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!"
"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
"A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!"
"Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!"
"Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei, light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!"
"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
"Let the boundlessness be your boundary!"
"You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!"
"If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!"
"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
"Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached."
"Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!"
"The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game."
"Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile."
"May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target!"
"My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero."
"It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?"
"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"
"The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience."
"Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?"
"The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any."
"It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius."
"Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!"
"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
"There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!"
"To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!"
"You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!"
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"
"Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!"
"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"
"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
"Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!"
"The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion."
"An empty street sucks your fullness, a full street fills your emptiness!"
"To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!"
"You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt."
"Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!"
"The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony."
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