Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 32

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can’t see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!

Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will go out! Keep the curtains open!

One can easily forget his destination when walking in a marvellous path towards his destination! The attraction of the path can be much stronger than the attraction of the target!

Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!

To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!

The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!

If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply!

What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!

If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

If you stuck in the past, you won’t be able to step in the future!

Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time!

A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

Having a finite life in an infinite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in a finite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in an infinite universe, now, that means something!

However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!

Library: The Temple of the Wise!

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!

Being alive and helping others to stay alive is the greatest personal success!

The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!

When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!

Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it!

The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!

If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light!

Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints!

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!

Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.

Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!

Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!

La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!

Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!

Face the truth or the truth will face you!