Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!
To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!
Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!
Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!
Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!
To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!
Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!
Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!
No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!
When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!
To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.
During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!
A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!
The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don't want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!
Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!
The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!
You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!
If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.
If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!
A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!
A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!
Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!
If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!
In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!
Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!