Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!

Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train!

Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!

The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!

Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts.

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!

The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!

The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!

When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!

Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Without curiosity, all doors remain closed!

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!