Mehmet ildan > Mehmet's Quotes

“We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you are honest, you are in the minority; if you are clever, you are in the minority; if you do not believe in any religious craps, you are in the minority! If you are not in the herd, you are in the minority! What a glorious privilege to be in this kind of minorities!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“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!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people or to produce art and science; or you can use it for chattering or for deceiving people! By looking at the human history, we can easily say that man is guilty of wasting his energy mostly for stupid things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If some things aren’t going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Mankind is focused on earth; he is mostly interested in stupid things like wars or ideological absurdities. What he has to do is to concentrate on the universe, because the universe is a cosmic novel that he must read fully, that he must understand fully and that in the end he must rewrite it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Be the man of no one! Instead, be the man of truth, only the truth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Some man’s dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you are not the member of any religion, it means that you are the member of truth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If your way is not the way of the science, then your way is not the way! Change it! If your way is not the way of the compassion and love, then your way is not the way! Change it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan