Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes - Page 5

When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!

Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!

Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!

There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.

It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!

We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!

Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!

Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!

Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!

If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!

When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!

Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!

For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!

A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!

The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!