Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 20

Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!

What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!

Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!

A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!

In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!

If a fish feels sad when a fisherman’s boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!

If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!

Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!

Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!

Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!

If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!

Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!

Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!

A dream like beautiful place is much more important than the beautiful place in a dream, because it is real!

A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!

For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!

If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!

What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!

William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!

On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!

Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!

Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!

All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!

If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

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

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!

Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!