Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes - Page 7

A happy face is also a source of happiness!

Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!

Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!

Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!

You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!

A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!

Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!

If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

Have an objective in life! Or you feel lost in life!

Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!

If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!

Not every lost soul wants to be found, because not every lost is lost, some of them found something or many thing or even everything in their lostness!

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!

When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people!

Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!

You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!

We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!

A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!

Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!

The path to tranquility gets through the storms!

For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!

Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!

Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!

In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!

For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!

It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

A planet without birds is a planet without angels!

If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!

Moments fly and if you don’t fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!

The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!

Let the boundlessness be your boundary!

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!