Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 6

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!

Sometimes the bridge that leads to heaven is the very hell itself!

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!

When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!

Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!

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

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!

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!

In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!

If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise!

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!

No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!

One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!

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!

Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!

Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!

A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible!

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won’t be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!

The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!

You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

Watch out when the bad treats you well!

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.

If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

What is the world’s problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!

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

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!

This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!

By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!

Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!

A limited mind will have a limited world!

The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!