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“O iyi insanlar o güzel atlara binip çekip gittiler.”
― Yaşar Kemal, Demirciler Çarşısı Cinayeti

“Bir başka deyişle, kimse siyah ya da beyaz olarak nitelendirilemez. Aslında hepimiz grinin tonlarıyız. Kimimiz daha koyu, kimimiz daha açık. Beyaza çok yakın bir tonu tutturabilenlerin azınlıkta olduğunu biliyoruz.”
― Engin Geçtan

“Hər həyat bir tablodur. Valideynlər o tablonun materialı olan kətanını, tale çərçivəsini, cəmiyyət rəngini verir. Çəkmək isə bizim öz əlimizdədir.”
― Rovshan Abdullaoglu, Bu Şəhərdə Kimsə Yoxdur

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

“When I take you to the Valley, you’ll see the blue hills on the left and the blue hills on the right, the rainbow and the vineyards under the rainbow late in the rainy season, and maybe you’ll say, “There it is, that’s it!” But I’ll say. “A little farther.” We’ll go on, I hope, and you’ll see the roofs of the little towns and the hillsides yellow with wild oats, a buzzard soaring and a woman singing by the shadows of a creek in the dry season, and maybe you’ll say, “Let’s stop here, this is it!” But I’ll say, “A little farther yet.” We’ll go on, and you’ll hear the quail calling on the mountain by the springs of the river, and looking back you’ll see the river running downward through the wild hills behind, below, and you’ll say, “Isn’t that the Valley?” And all I will be able to say is “Drink this water of the spring, rest here awhile, we have a long way yet to go and I can’t go without you.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic including A Free Man's Worship

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
The doctor says, "Then don't do that!”
― Henny Youngman

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Sizin hiç babanız öldü mü?
Benim bir kere öldü kör oldum
Yıkadılar aldılar götürdüler
Babamdan ummazdım bunu kör oldum

Siz hiç hamama gittiniz mi?
Ben gittim lambanın biri söndü
Gözümün biri söndü kör oldum
Tepede bir gökyüzü vardı yuvarlak
Şöylelemesine maviydi kör oldum
Taşlara gelince hamam taşlarına
Taşlar pırıl pırıldı ayna gibiydi
Taşlarda yüzümün yarısını gördüm
Bir şey gibiydi bir şey gibi kötü
Yüzümden ummazdım bunu kör oldum

Siz hiç sabunluyken ağladınız mı?”
― Cemal Süreya

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”
― Tupac Shakur

“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”
― Tupac Shakur

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Mən də hamı kimiyəm: arzu etdiyimi həqiqət kimi qəbul edirəm və dünyanı olduğu kimi yox, görmək istədiyim kimi görürəm.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Man's character is his fate.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a-half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it. ” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,”—and we’re still running—“if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, ‘“Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body

“When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. "There they stand," said he to his heart; "there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”
― Mário Quintana

“I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War