When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANArchimedes once said that ‘Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.’ There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!
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Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
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Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
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When the waves are crazy, the land is prettier!
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Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
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Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
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For a great willpower, no road has length!
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When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!
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When you look at a beautiful view from a window, the beautiful view also looks at you from the same window! But the window looks at both you and the view! Wise man is the window itself; he looks at everywhere!
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There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!
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If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!
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Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!
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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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Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!
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The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!
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A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!
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