Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 13

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth!

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!

There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.

Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!

The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!

Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!

Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!

Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!

You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!

When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!

Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!

Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish!

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!

Just because you believe in something, you cannot expect others to respect for your belief! They may even make fun of it! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone! Something holy for you may be just a rubbish for others! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone!

In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!

There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!

On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!

You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!

There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!

Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes!

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

Stick to the honesty and never leave it!

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught!

When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!

He who knows how to fall without hurting himself will also know how to rise without any difficulty!

Beautiful winter means beautiful spring! When you look at a great winter scenery, see the flowers, see the bees, see the butterflies, they are all there!

If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!

If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don’t know the true paths to reach that person!

In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!

To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!

An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!

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!

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!

Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation’s history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!

Sun is a cosmic hand which tries to reach you wherever you are!

The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!