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We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Beyond Clear Day Horizon See Sight
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Fight Man Options Sea Valid Wave
It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Enough Ethnicity Human Identity Inferior
Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Food Heart Love Silence Surround Wings
Roads are long; make them short with a good company!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Company Goodness Road
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
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Dreams Journey Man Sit Tree World
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist’s voice!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

God History Spiritual Voice
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
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Peace Poor Rich Steal Thief Time
Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Fools Possible Shape Soft Wisdom Yourself
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Silence Sun Talk Wasted Wisdom
Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Gentle Heart Knock Leaving Open
Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Mindset Night Scare Shadow
Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Dangerous Man Path Reality Storm Violence
For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Greatness Learning Master
No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Absence Beat Body Gossip Guard Protection
Man 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 ILDAN

Better Live Man Natural Place Privilege Remark Time
Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Bird Break Forget Humble Reality Sky Wings
If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Children Happiness Praise Yourself
Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

God Hell Lying Torture
No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Claim Control Destiny Freedom Man
Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Bird Cage Freedom Invention Man
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!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Best Change Position Power Refusal Try
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Deep Learning Ocean Thinking Wise
We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Beauty Ourselves Thinking
The 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!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Advice Best Hard Work Remember Sadness
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

Balance Darkness Life Mountain Seek Stay
I don’t keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Deep Fly Freedom Past

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

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