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Quotes About Perspective

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
~ 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
Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
~ 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