Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 21

Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!

Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!

While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!

Think big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!

Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!

Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!

When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!

Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!

If you are a hope for someone, that’s very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that’s excellent!

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!

When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!

If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!

When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!

Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!

If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!

A happy face is also a source of happiness!

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!

Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!

For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!

When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!

Your culture is your limit; if you can’t go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.

Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!

There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!

There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!

Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!

Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!

You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!

Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!