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Quotes About Reflection

Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We wonder of the nature and the nature wonders of us!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan