Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.
MEHMET MURAT ILDANBirds are not free since Men have invented cages.
MEHMET MURAT ILDANYou may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANIf you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANFoot 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 ILDANLet us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANWe cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANA good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANLike a garbage truck, we need a ‘lie-truck’ which will collect lies from everyone’s houses every morning, even every hour!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANHeraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANTo separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANThere are no ‘perfect liars’ in the world; there are only ‘perfect believers’ who believe in even the most obvious lies!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANNo owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANThe most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANMan must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANSilence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANThe best advice I’ve ever heard about anything is this: Don’t exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don’t exaggerate!
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