Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes - Page 4

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!

A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!

A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!

In action is the worst action of human beings!

When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!

You don’t have to love the storm but you have to know its language in case you meet it!

A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

What are we? We are a thinking universe!

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!

Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others!

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

Your path will shine when you shine on your path!

The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away from your herd to get closer to yourself, to find your true self you have lost in the herd!

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

You will never be lonely on the right path because the truth itself is the best companion a person can ever have!

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!

You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!

Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!

There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth!

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!

Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!

You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!

On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!

To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!