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Photographs capture only the moments; but since every moment is very important in human life, every photo is also very important!
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!
At times an obstacle on your way may be so stupid that you may not want to deal with it; jump over it and save your time! There is no need to deal with every stupid thing or every stupid person; jump over them, leave them quite behind you!
When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!
When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!
Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!
Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!
In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!
Any work done with love - be it a photo or a meal or a painting - always looks so pretty, because love is a master of creating magical beauties!
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!
Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!
Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us!
Filled with anything? Find an emptiness and let your load flow into it!
Talent is an art of gaining admiration!
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.
Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!
Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!
Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!
There is no cul-de-sac for those who have no ability to lose their hopes!
Rain cannot pass through the glass, but light can; light cannot travel deep into the caves, but rain can! We all have different abilities! Neither rain is superior to light nor light is superior to rain!
If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!
A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible!
We need mountains to climb, rivers to cross; we need obstacles to become stronger! Do not hesitate to wish for obstacles on your way! Demand for the obstacles!
There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.
Look at the people in the very old photographs! They are gone forever but they still can give us messages with their eyes, they still can touch our hearts with their looks and they still can give us courage with their standing upright!
There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
Our photographs often live longer than us! Not forever, but only longer!
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!
Those who cannot illuminate even a gloomy street often talk about illuminating the world!
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!
Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!
Cosmos and its stars; poet and his poetry!
Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.
Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!
No ornament can make a person look beautiful if the person has a bad heart! A good heart is the finest ornament, the best makeup, the best cloth, the best jewel, the best lipstick and the best earring!
Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!
However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!
Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!
Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!
An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!
As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!
Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
A magnificent natural view is a pink curtain. Open the curtain; you will then see the most horrible life struggles over there! Could it be that the beauty of the nature is a bribe given to us by God to forget the atrocities of the nature?
Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!"
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!"
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind."
When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!"
The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!"
Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!"
There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations."
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!"
All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!"
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!
The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!
The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!
Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!
Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!
Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!
The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!
If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!
People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!
A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!
Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love.
A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!
If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!
The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!
Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can't break the glass, don't worry; science will do it for you!
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!
Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!
Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!
If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.
Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!
When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart!
Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!
Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!
Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!
Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!
In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!
If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!..
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

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