Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!

Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!

When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!

Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon!

With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

If a street has a spirit, no matter how narrow it is, we can breathe comfortably over there.

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!

Every road has an end. Choose the one that worth travelling!

Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!

We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!

Wherever there is peace lacking, try to create it and put it there!

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!

Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply!

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!

Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

What love can achieve, nothing else can achieve!

Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.

Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!