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Famous Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

“Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!”

“When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!”

“Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!”

“History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!”

“The first dance is the worst dance; the last dance is the best dance! All the roads of persistent practice lead to the Land of Perfection!”

“You thought a lot about heaven and hell, my friend, you exhausted yourself for nothing, you made silly definitions, you carried heaven and hell to an after-death dimension, to a place that does not exist! It's all here! Wherever there is a peaceful corner of the world, there is heaven, wherever there is chaos in the world, there is hell, it's that simple!”

“You are in hell and there is a bridge in front of you, the other side is heaven! Do you know what the name of that bridge is, my dear friend? The name of that bridge is wisdom! Only when you use your wisdom will you move from the hell zone to the heaven zone! And what is wisdom? In its simplest definition, it is to understand life and universe in depth by using the mind and emotions at the highest level!”

“If you have found the secret of immortality, don't take a megaphone and announce it to the whole world! Give this secret only to those who deserve it! And who are they? They are people who believe in this world, not in an imaginary paradise or in divine powers! Only those who believe in this very existence, those who do not have a world outside of existence deserve immortality! And those left behind must go to their imaginary paradise and live there happily with their gods!”

“You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!”

“The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!”

“The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.”