Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!
Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell!
If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!
We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it!
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!
There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.
Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.
A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.
You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe!
You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!
Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!
You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.
You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.
A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!
A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!
A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!