For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANStop going to the zoos! Don’t take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
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Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
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You need new roads to discover new places!
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Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
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Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
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Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!
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A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.
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Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.
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The best advice I’ve ever heard about anything is this: Don’t exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don’t exaggerate!
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The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!
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It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!
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Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!
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The adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!
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Don’t make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!
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There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
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An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
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Sincere wishes come true.
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Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!
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However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!
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Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.
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If you have a guru, leave him; if you don’t have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean’s wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!
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If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
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You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!
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If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!
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In autumn, don’t go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!
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The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
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While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
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