“Goodness is not a matter of effects or rewards because to perform an action because of the benefits it confers is not to perform it because it is right.”
Source: Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
“The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon Forest and causing a typhoon in the Pacific.
Imagine the butterfly effect applied to your actions. A small act of kindness in your neighborhood or city gaining strength and spreading to benefit the many.
Perhaps, that thought will make you think twice in moments of weakness.”
“Be a gentle giant like the elephant, not an opportunistic carnivore like the wolf. The elephant doesn't harm anyone to prove its greatness, while the wolf doesn't think twice to devour another wolf.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“The privilege of God's grace shows the mercy of his goodness.”
“I may not be your blood brother,
In me you have a heart brother.
I may disappear in your happy days,
In difficult times I'll surely appear.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Better to have loved and lost than to never loved at all”
“I may disappear in your happy days, in difficult times I'll surely appear.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Goodness is the natural charity of good ones.”
“Kindness is intention absolute,
Goodness is belief absolute.
Service is wisdom absolute,
Humanity is education absolute.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“What is human is also kind,
Kindness is supreme sanity.
Acceptance is love in practice,
Love is the truest upward mobility.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations