Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANFor an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!
More Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes
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If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!
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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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Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!
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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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In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!
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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!
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The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!
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An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
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If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
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You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!
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Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.
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May God protect us from all the religions!
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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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Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
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Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
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If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!
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No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!
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Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
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To be a ‘believer’ does not make you superior to others; but to be a ‘humanist’ does make it so!
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When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.
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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 haven’t admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world’s greatest megalomaniac!
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Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!
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If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!
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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!
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Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
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