Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 18

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!

The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!

Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!

Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!

Death must die so that life can be real!

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!

Do the dreams have also their own dreams? Yes they have and those dreams also have their own dreams! So when you create a dream, you create infinite number of dreams! When you dream of a beautiful house, then that beautiful house will create new dreams!

Update your belief! If necessary, throw it to the bin! Don’t exaggerate your belief! Remember that your belief is not that much important; the important thing is what the science, what the reason and the truth say! And remember also that with the earthquake of knowledge many beliefs have collapsed and again many more will collapse!

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe.

As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!

If your words touch the hearts, that’s good; if your words touch the minds, that’s better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!

In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!

Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!

In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!

To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!

The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!

If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!

If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!

God may be the captain pilot of this universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind’s invention, your mind’s exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!

No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!

If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

Rain just rains, it does nothing else. Wisdom just rains, it does nothing else! And those who get the rain get the miracles hidden inside the rain and create their own miracles!

The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?

By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!

Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!

Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!

When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!

They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!

Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!

There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!

In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!

When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!

If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!

Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!