Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!
When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!
When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!
He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!
Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!
The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!
When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!
As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!
Beautiful winter means beautiful spring! When you look at a great winter scenery, see the flowers, see the bees, see the butterflies, they are all there!
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
If you are a sensitive person, you don’t give flowers to others, because you know that the flowers – these miraculous beauties and the wondrous jewels of our cosmos – excessively deserve to live!
Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!
A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!