Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 2

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!

You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!

In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!

The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!

You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!

Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!

People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god’s sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!

If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!

Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!

You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!

Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!

The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!

When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!

Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!

Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!

Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!

Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!

Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn’t find such a path yet!

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!

Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!

Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!

Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!

Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!

Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!

It is often said that it’s a man’s world! We must change this fact and create this: It’s a human’s world!

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!

It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!

A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!

The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!

You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!

Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!

Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!

Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!

Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!

Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!