Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
You don't walk with your feet; you walk with your courage! No courage, no walking!
You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!
You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!
You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there!
You have to protect your food, otherwise someone else takes it! There is no divinity in here! But there is divinity there: In a civilised order where no being has to defend for its food!
You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!
Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!
Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!
Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!
Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.
Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!
New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.
Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!
Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!
With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!
It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!
In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!
To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!
Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!
Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!
Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!
You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
Unless you are in the middle of a storm, there is no validity in saying that you are not afraid of the storms.
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!