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Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your pathMehmet Murat Ildan
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Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason’s coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don’t give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Even the giant lead balls are not as heavy as the two sad eyes!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A man stroking a dog’s head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you are happy with the journey you can give up the destination!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!Mehmet Murat Ildan