Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.
Mehmet Murat IldanThe power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!
Mehmet Murat IldanIf the view is very beautiful, do not sit and watch; go to the view, be in the view!
Mehmet Murat IldanThere are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities
Mehmet Murat IldanHe who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
Mehmet Murat IldanStupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!
Mehmet Murat IldanFind a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!
Mehmet Murat IldanOn a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!
Mehmet Murat IldanCourage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
Mehmet Murat IldanAn arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!
Mehmet Murat IldanThe leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
Mehmet Murat IldanIt would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!
Mehmet Murat IldanHave you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don't worry; even if you can't find it, a new hope will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat IldanEvery morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!
Mehmet Murat IldanChiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!
Mehmet Murat IldanWe learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.
Mehmet Murat IldanIf a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
Mehmet Murat IldanFor a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
Mehmet Murat IldanSilence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
Mehmet Murat IldanDuring the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
Mehmet Murat IldanThe dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
Mehmet Murat IldanThe world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!
Mehmet Murat IldanIn the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!
Mehmet Murat IldanThe day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!
Mehmet Murat IldanIf you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!
Mehmet Murat IldanDon't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.
Mehmet Murat IldanJohn F. Kennedy says: 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don't leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!
Mehmet Murat IldanYou missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!
Mehmet Murat IldanDo not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Mehmet Murat IldanA tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!
Mehmet Murat IldanOpen the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!
Mehmet Murat IldanNot to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!
Mehmet Murat IldanArchimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!
Mehmet Murat IldanDo not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!
Mehmet Murat IldanBirds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!
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