Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 31

If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!

If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won’t change!

If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!

The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!

Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!

In the future, you will always encounter the past!

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!

To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!

Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!

The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!

Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don’t be the man of anyone or any system, don’t believe in any religious stories, and don’t ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!

You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!

Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!

Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.

Look at towards the future! If you see something, it is your imagination only! Because the future is not there yet, it has not born yet!

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!

A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

Storms are good friends because they light up the way to wisdom!

Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

A man’s greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!

I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway?

Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!

You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!

When you fully understand something, you become that something itself! If you understand a rock, you become a rock; if you understand the universe, you become the universe; if you understand a horse, you become a horse! Understanding automatically transforms you into the thing understood!

When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!

Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don’t walk to us or don’t run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!

Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy.

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!