Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 24

A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely!

From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it!

Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!

In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!

For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!

It is good to say something beautiful; it is even better to say something right; but saying a right thing beautifully, that is the best!

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!

It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!

A planet without birds is a planet without angels!

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!

Moments fly and if you don’t fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!

While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe!

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!

People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!

The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!

When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!

Let the boundlessness be your boundary!

One face of the cloud sees the sun, other face of the cloud sees the darkness! To survive in this universe, you must do the same! See the sun, see the darkness! Enjoy the life, but prepare for the worst as well!

Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!

You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!

Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!

Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!

When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!

You will find angels everywhere if you just stop looking for a supernatural being with feathered wings. When you see the sunshine through the clouds in a cold day, there the angel is! Anything good, anything useful, anything which gives you peace, they are all real angels! Look around you, you will see thousands of angels!

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don’t be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!

What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don’t have to worry for anyone!

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!

Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!

Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!

There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!

Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!

In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!

The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!

When you do your work happily, work will disappear.

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!

The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!