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Famous Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

“If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!”

“Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!”

“Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!”

“You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!”

“An honourable man is fair even to his enemies; a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!”

“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!”

“If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!”

“Simple is pretty because it is plain; simple is effective because it gives an understandable clear message; simple is genius because it gains our admiration with a minimum effort!”

“Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!”

“To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!”

“The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!”

“Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!”

“Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!”

“Solitude is the best school where you can scrutinize your past mistakes and make necessary corrections for the future; it is your greatest opportunity to create a better fate!”

“The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!”

“The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!”

“Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!”

“For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!”

“No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!”

“The politicians of your country will always try to encircle you with the high walls of lies! You must know that the truth is beyond the walls and without meeting the truth you cannot meet the freedom!”

“There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!”

“You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!”

“The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!”

“What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death; the silence of the debris; the silence of the birds! After war even the screams of sadness are silent because the pain is in the very depths of the soul!”

“Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!”

“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”

“Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!”