Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

When the inspiration comes, let everything else go!

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don't let them to rust!

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!

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!

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!

It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!

Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

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!

Doing of good is the best temple ever built!

A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!

Inside a crowd, you have no right to complain about the crowdedness, because you are already a part of it!

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!

If there was a bridge between the Sun and the Earth, that would be a wonderful road to hell!

In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don't wait for the morning to come!

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!

Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!