Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 16

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!

Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!

The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!

If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!

The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!

Don’t mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!

Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!

Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

For a great willpower, no road has length!

The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!

If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!

High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!

Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

There are many you’s within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you’s!

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!

Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!

Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!

The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!

Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!

If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!

All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!

Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!

With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

A day without laugh is a day without life.

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!

Sometimes you find your way and sometimes way finds you!

Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!

Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!

If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only ‘now’ in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!