Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

Mehmet Murat ildan

An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Mehmet Murat ildan

While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict them! The second group has no chance to triumph and they will always be remembered as spooky characters from a horror movie!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!

Mehmet Murat ildan

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!

Mehmet Murat ildan

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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