Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 27

When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!

Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!

You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!

When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

The day you stop dreaming, you stop creating the future as well!

There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!

No matter what happens in the outside world, as long as you have faith in yourself, no darkness can touch you!

How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?

If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren’t only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!

All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!

The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!

When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!

To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!

May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!

The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!

A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!

All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

Woman cannot be free until man’s mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!

Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!

The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.

Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!

Watch out when the bad treats you well!

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!

Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!

Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!

Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!

If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!