Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 17

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

From a rat hole you can go to the stars or from the stars you can go to a rat hole! Your destiny is open to every possibility!

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!

A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies!

Something right in the morning can turn into something wrong in the afternoon! Even if you are on the right path, you must still question the rightness of your path! Conditions perpetually change! Update your path and your travel constantly!

It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!

Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!

However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!

First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!

Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!

Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don’t let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!

A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!

If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!

This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!

There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a ‘we must do something universe,’ it is a ‘we must be serious universe!’ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, ‘waiting’ must be abolished!

The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!

There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!

Silence and creativity are very close friends!

A silent street always welcome a good music!

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!

If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!

If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!

The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!