Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 12

When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places!

If you have taught your child how to walk when he is all alone, it means that you have taught him everything!

We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!

To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!

Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.

What are we? We are a thinking universe!

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!

Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others!

If you are a sensitive person, you don’t give flowers to others, because you know that the flowers – these miraculous beauties and the wondrous jewels of our cosmos – excessively deserve to live!

Create a world within the world and be happy inside it! Don’t forget, you are not condemned to live the world as is!

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don’t be afraid, you don’t fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside!

The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

Your path will shine when you shine on your path!

In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!

Those who want to get wet need no umbrella!

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away from your herd to get closer to yourself, to find your true self you have lost in the herd!

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

You will never be lonely on the right path because the truth itself is the best companion a person can ever have!

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!

An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected!

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!

Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!

You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!

Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!

Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!

Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!

We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!

Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!

Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!