Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 29

The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!

Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!

Don’t be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!

When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!

Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!

Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!

If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!

Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don’t give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!

If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!

It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!

Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

A man who gets up very early creates a new day within the same day!

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?

Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!

The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!

When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!

Think something better so that something better can happen!

Your dream is your path!

To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!

If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!

Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!

When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!

Hard roads require will of steel!

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!

No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!

What you do when nobody is there is your true you!

Sincere wishes come true.

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!

We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!

Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!

In reality the concept of ‘other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!

To read is to climb the high places!

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!

If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.

Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!