Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 3

Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
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Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!
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Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!
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Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!
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If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!
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High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!
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Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!
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You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
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It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!
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The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!
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By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!
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Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!
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Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!
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If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!
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To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!
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When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!
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Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!
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Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!
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Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!
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The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!
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To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!
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Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!
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Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!
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To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!
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You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!
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Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
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Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!
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A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!
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If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!
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To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!
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Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!
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If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!
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There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life - the miracle given to you by the evolution - under all conditions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good!
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When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!
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When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!
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Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!
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Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!
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Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!
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If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!
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Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no need to watch the news because there is no need to listen to the lies! And you already have one real information: You are being deceived by the people you are governed! This is an enough information for you!
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The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!
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What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!
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Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!
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Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!
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Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!
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You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!
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We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!
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Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!
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To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!
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If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!
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To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!
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In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!
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Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!
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Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!
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The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!
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You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!
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Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!
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It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!
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