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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!"
"Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!"
"No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!"
"Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious."
"The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!"
"There is only one autumn in a year, but in people's life, there are many autumns in one year!"
"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"
"Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!"
"Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!"
"If you want to be respected, do something respectful!"
"The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!"
"Future is a car with brake failure, it is moving towards us at a very high speed."
"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
"Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!"
"We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!"
"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"
"If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!"
"Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!"
"There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities."
"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"
"We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!"
"Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!"
"To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!"
"If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!"
"Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent!"
"Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!"
"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!"
"Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!"
"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"
"We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!"
"If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!"
"You walk and walk and walk and then you look at back and see your youth, so far away from you, so young, so curious, so hopeful, so breezy, so brave! To feel young in old age, remember your youth very often! Remind yourself frequently what you were once!"
"As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!"
"We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance, we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge."
"Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!"
"The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!"
"If your words touch the hearts, that's good; if your words touch the minds, that's better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!"
"Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!"
"A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!"
"Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create..."
"The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!"
"In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!"
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
"All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!"
"For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!"
"The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!"
"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
"There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!"
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