Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 2

Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!
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If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
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After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
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Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!
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You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!
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In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
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How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
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Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!
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Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
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A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
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If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
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Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
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John 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!
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If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
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Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
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We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
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Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
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My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
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As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
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An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
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You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!
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You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!
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When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.
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If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!
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If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!
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Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!
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To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!
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Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!
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When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch out when the bad treats you well!
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The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
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Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!
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To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!
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Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won’t be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!
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When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!
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Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
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You can’t get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
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The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
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Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
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Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a ‘we must do something universe,’ it is a ‘we must be serious universe!’ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, ‘waiting’ must be abolished!
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You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
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Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
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Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
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When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
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In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!
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If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!
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In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.
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To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!
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Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!
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Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
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Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
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A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
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Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
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The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
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You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
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In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
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Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
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Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!
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A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
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Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
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