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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!"
"Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!"
"Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!"
"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
"First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!"
"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."
"Ants are successful creatures, they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!"
"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!"
"In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!"
"If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before!"
"Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!"
"By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!"
"Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!"
"All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!"
"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"
"You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!"
"Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!"
"A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a reality."
"La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!"
"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."
"Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much more things than the path of known!"
"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!"
"Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!"
"When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!"
"Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!"
"The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!"
"Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!"
"Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!"
"If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!"
"There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!"
"The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!"
"Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!"
"To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!"
"The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is AtatA1?4rk, an immortal revolutionist!"
"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!"
"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!"
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
"The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased."
"The wind likes making jokes!"
"Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!"
"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
"A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!"
"Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!"
"Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!"
"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!"
"Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!"
"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!"
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