Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANIf you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
More Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
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Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!
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If you don’t like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don’t like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!
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There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
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Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
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When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!
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It is a good habit to thank always the bridge which takes you to the other side or to mention the name of the bridge or to take the photo of it or to repair it if you can! In short, do something good for those who do goodness for you!
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Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don’t expect the ground beneath you to move forward!
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A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!
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You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!
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Archimedes once said that ‘Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.’ There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!
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If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!
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Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
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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!
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Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!
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No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
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