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Mirrors are Various

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Salt Effect on Someone's Life

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Human Oppression by Human

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Human-to-Kind

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Rumi Quotes

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Difference of Loving and Being in Love

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Şems answered to the question "What is the difference between  loving and  being in love?":  Everybody can look at who you look; but nobody can feel as you do..    Everybody can be in love; but nobody can love like you..  The only difference is you.. "What makes you special is not the one you love but your love!" 

Turkish Proverb - Coming Before the Sunrise

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Turkish Proverb : Who knows what may come before the sun rises. Oiginal : Gün doğmadan neler doğar.  Description : There is all the time hope for the most unsolvable-seemed problems.. So one shall not feel the despair whatever the problem is, there will be hope all the time. Meanwhile the same applies to an happy day; that no one knows what will come next although everything seems to be fine. 

Nothing in Hand

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"After I die, take out my hand out of the coffin so that: people will understand that even the Suleiman the Magnificent left this world without nothing in hand." Saying of Suleiman the Magnificent (Click to Understand his point!)

People Like Books

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Consider people as books.. Don't evaluate them with their covers. You can understand their real value after reading.. Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (Click)

Number-One Enemy of the Public

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"... I know I am guilty, consenting my punishment I have neither stolen nor killed anybody But I did even worse Do you know what I did, boss? I loved people... ..." From the poetry "Number-One Enemy of the Public" by Can Yücel. Source:  Bir Numaralı Halk Düşmanı - Can Yücel

Are You Living/Human?

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If a person can feel pain then s/he refers to 'living being'. If a person can feel other's pain then s/he refers to 'human being'. Tolstoy

A Quote from Mevlana

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Love your partner, Love your work, Love your food, But not yourself.. Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi

A Human Should Be Aware - Can Yücel

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"A human should be aware that  although s/he could fit in the belly of a mother, why s/he can't fit in a life and also should be aware that  at the end  s/he is going to be dragged in to be fitted in one-square-meter space." Can Yücel

Turkish Proverb - Accident Comes without Notice

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Proverb : "Accident comes without notice." - A Turkish Proverb  Original Form : "Kaza geliyorum demez." - Türk Atasözü Description : It is impossible to estimate the occurance time and place of an accident. This proverb encourages getting set for any unexpected accidents, that may be possible in our lives.

Turkish Proverb - Worse than Worst

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Proverb : "There is ever worse than worst." -  A Turkish Proverb  Original Form : "Beterin beteri vardır." - Türk Atasözü Description : This proverb points the weakness of humankind since most despair with one tribulation. However a person shall always consider being strong with raising his/her consolation by thinking of the worse situations that could be possible but luckily not experienced.

Turkish Apothegm - Moral Values

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Apothegm : "A nation can't be evaluated with the wealth level but with the moral values." - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk  Original : "Bir millet, zenginliğiyle değil, ahlak değeriyle ölçülür." - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Description : Atatürk points in his word, that moral values can form the unity of a nation while preventing individualism, and when formed, which will guide that nation to welfare, freedom, and improvement.

Money has a Warm Face

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Proverb : "Money has a warm face." - A Turkish Proverb  Original Form : "Paranın yüzü sıcaktır." - Türk Atasözü Description : The proverb refers to the fact that any person can be taken in hand to have him/her make something asked, by use of money. The point is directed, more specifically, to the power of money in our daily lives.

Past Experiences

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Proverb : "One, with his mouth burned from hot milk, eats yogurt by cooling it down." - A Turkish Proverb  Original Form : "Sütten ağzı yanan, yoğurdu üfleyerek yer." Description : The proverb refers to a person showing unnecessary graveness to everything due to past experience of a big fault.  Thanks to r7raul for the idea of presenting Turkish proverbs..