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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!"
"Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!"
"If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!"
"Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!"
"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
"If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!"
"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!"
"Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!"
"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
"We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!"
"You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!"
"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!"
"Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art."
"Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared."
"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"
"Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers."
"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!"
"For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!"
"We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way, this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!"
"Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!"
"May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target!"
"You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!"
"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
"The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!"
"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"
"For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!"
"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm."
"What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!"
"Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!"
"To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!"
"At the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words."
"Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!"
"Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life."
"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"
"When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!"
"If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!"
"The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!"
"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"
"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
"The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing!"
"The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!"
"There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity!"
"Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe, it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!"
"In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel."
"Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!"
"Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!"
"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"
"While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!"
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