Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

How long we live is much more important than how well we live!

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!

However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

Human history's the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.

Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!

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!

Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!

Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!