Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 19

Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won’t make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!

When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.

A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!

It will be very fair to say that the moments of sincere laughing are the very best moments of life!

If you are a sparrow, don’t attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don’t attack the sparrow; be just!

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!

The philosophy of the rain is very simple: No obstacle is obstacle when you are strongly determined!

Let those who live never forget those who died!

No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!

In the distant future, I don’t want to be remembered; I want to remember!

A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!

No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!

It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master!

There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!

While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!

Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself!

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!

There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!

If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!

A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!

Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!

You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!

If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!

You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn’t need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!

Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!

Little cats mean little kids, little kids mean little cats!

There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!

You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams!

Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!

If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!

Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!

Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!

When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!

You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

Don’t be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!

If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country,’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!

As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!

The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!

World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!

When will you understand that your childish beliefs mean an absolute nothing in this wild universe! When will you be serious? When will you give up deceiving yourself? When will you stop believing in the tales of old times as if they are true?

Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!

Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!

You must often visit the darkness to get the people lost in the darkness out of there!