When you look at a beautiful view from a window, the beautiful view also looks at you from the same window! But the window looks at both you and the view! Wise man is the window itself; he looks at everywhere!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANFailure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.
More Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
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All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!
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Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
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If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!
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Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!
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Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!
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There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!
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Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!
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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!
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If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!
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However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!
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Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
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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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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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If you have a guru, leave him; if you don’t have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean’s wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!
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While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
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