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Quotes About Reflection

Forest is the best port of the wise man!
~ 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
Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Leave your coast to discover your true self!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan