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Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!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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Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake 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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If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a realityMehmet Murat Ildan
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It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path!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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He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!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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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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Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self! .Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!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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Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!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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If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!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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Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger tooMehmet Murat Ildan
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The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Little cats mean little kids, little kids mean little cats!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Don’t be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!Mehmet Murat Ildan