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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
― Deb Caletti

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
― George Orwell

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I happen to look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you. You will walk
the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods,
will turn gray in these same houses.
You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“I am listening to Istanbul with my eyes closed
The drunkenness of old times
In the wooden seaside villa with its deserted boat house
The roaring Southwestern wind is trapped,
My thoughts are trapped.

I am listening to Istanbul with my eyes closed
A bird is flying around your skirt
I know if your forehead is hot or cold
Or your lips are wet or dry;
Or is a white moon is rising above the hazelnut tree
My heart's fluttering tells me
I am listening to Istanbul with my eyes closed”
― Orhan Veli Kanık, Bütün Şiirleri

“İyi insan masalına inanmıyorum, belki bir yerlerde vardır bir iyi insan, ama gőrmek gerek. Ben hiç gőrmedim. Ben de iyi degilim, kendimi aldatacak kadar yalancı olamam, hiç iyi bir insan sayılmam; iyi insana yer yoktur zaten dűnyada, bűtűn bu bizi saran, içimize işleyen, bize hayvanların bile yapamayacakları şeyleri yaptiran, kőtűlűk…”
― Susan Tamaro

“Bilir misin, deniz, gokyuzu, insanlar gunahsizken ne guzeldir. Bu saatlerde baliklar daha yeni uyanmistir sularda. Yenicami'nin guvercinleri kanat alistiriyorlardir. Insanlarsa en saf, en temiz saatlerdedir. Daha kufure, yalana bulasmamislardir. Elleri, dilleri, gozleri temizdir. Her seyin en temiz, en ari oldugu saatlerde ben de kendimi onlar gibi hissederim”
― Mehmet Güler, İstanbul Kanatlı Ben

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
― Albert Einstein

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
― Albert Einstein

“Bir anıyı görmeye gittiğinizde
neye dokunsanız canınız acır”
― Murathan Mungan, Bazı Yazlar Uzaktan Geçer

“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
― Charles Bukowski

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols