Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 15

If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!

The wind likes making jokes!

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!

Life is a miracle and your most important goal in life is to protect this miracle. You have one more goal which is as important as this one and that is to protect the other miracles, the lives of others!

People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!

For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!

Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

Our true appearance is our mind’s appearance; whatever our mind’s visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face!

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

We often think that earth is the ground where our houses are built; but scientifically saying, space is the ground and earth is the house built on that ground!

In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!

You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!

In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

Watching the rain is as beautiful as watching the sunset or the sunrise and it is even better because in addition to watching you can also listen to it, the fantastic music of the drop sounds!

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!

In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!

Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!

All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!

If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!

Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!

Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!

Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.

Existence has billions of doors, but death has none!

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!

Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!

Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.

When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!