Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 8

It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!

Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!

Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!

If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!

When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!

In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet!

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

The easiest way to be immortal is to stop thinking and the easiest way to stop thinking is to work hard physically! Remember, when you don’t think, you are immortal!

An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don’t waste your scarce time to be patient!

Only the dull don’t doubt!

If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?

Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!

Not only try but try your best!

A warm house is the best New Year present for every child!

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!

May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!

When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!

Reduce the light, increase the concentration!

To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature!

Admire all the stars, but what you really must admire is your very own Sun, the cosmic candle of our beloved Earth!

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don’t be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

* If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!

One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!

The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

For an infinite journey, we need an endless road, an immortal vehicle and an eternal body!

When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!

No child’s face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!

The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive!

Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!

The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!

Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!

Not only persons lose their way, but nations lose their way as well!

If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!

A limited mind will have a limited world!

In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!

Sun always shines for those who have something good to stand upon.

Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!

You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!

The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!