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Quotes About Introspection

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
~ 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
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan