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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!"
"It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!"
"All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!"
"In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!"
"Sometimes you find your way and sometimes way finds you!"
"A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!"
"To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!"
"A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places, they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights."
"If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!"
"You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!"
"Sincere wishes come true."
"Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!"
"A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!"
"To sulk is to create a noise, to smile is to create a music."
"All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!"
"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"
"Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!"
"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"
"Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!"
"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
"Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!"
"There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!"
"Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!"
"Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!"
"Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!"
"There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!"
"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
"Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!"
"Flexibility is an art of creating way outs within the cul-de-sacs!"
"If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?"
"As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!"
"Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!"
"True thinking brings a good life!"
"If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!"
"He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!"
"The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!"
"The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!"
"High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!"
"A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!"
"Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!"
"The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!"
"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"
"Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!"
"When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!"
"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!"
"It is not enough to protect the source of the light, the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us!"
"Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!"
"To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!"
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