Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 5

Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!

A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

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

Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!

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

Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!

It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!

It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!

High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!

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!

Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!

Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don’t have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

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!

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!

The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

A silent street always welcome a good music!

When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!

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

The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!

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

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!

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!

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!

Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

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

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

Universe is a paradise of beautiful hidden doors.

Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!

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

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!

If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!

Rain just rains, it does nothing else. Wisdom just rains, it does nothing else! And those who get the rain get the miracles hidden inside the rain and create their own miracles!

Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!

With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!

Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!

Let those who live never forget those who died!

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!

Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!

Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!

If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?

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!

When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

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

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!

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