Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!

Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

Knowing the right thing is wonderful; practicing the right thing is even more wonderful; and the most wonderful thing is that helping others to practice the right thing!

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

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!

The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don't want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!

Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!

There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us big things! Small candles too challenge the huge darknesses!

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!

Don't make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!

To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!

The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

When somebody calls you stupid, if your face turns red from anger, it means that a part of you believes in this! When you call a wise man stupid, his colour never changes!

It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!

Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!