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“If you can make people trust you, you can drag them to hell with a smile on their face! You see, trusting is such a risky business, and if a business is risky, it must be handled with the utmost care!”

Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan is a renowned Turkish writer born on May 16, 1965. His works span various literary forms including novels, essays, and poetry, and have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

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“Men, she knew, were not to be trusted. They had their courting face--all politeness, and bows, and compliments, and "May I have this dance?" And then they had the face they wore to stare down at their peas as they avoided the gaze of their wife across the dinner table. Worse still, she knew, she knew, that there were some very respectable, dignified, and exceedingly polite gentlemen who wore quite another face entirely behind closed doors. This was a cruel face of power wielded over another--a horse, a servant, even a wife.”

“Happiness only happens in the heart. It is only in the heart that anything of real value, of eternal value, grows. It is only in the heart that love, joy, silence, truth, compassion, freedom and God grow. The functioning of the heart and the head are totally opposed to each other. Happiness never happens in the head. The head is like a desert. Nothing grows in the head. And we are trained for the head, which becomes  a problem in our life. The head is based on doubt, and the heart is based on trust. Our whole training in the education systemis doubt, thinking, logic, reasoning and questioning. That is not the way of the heart. There is very few people, who actually know that the heart exists. For many people the heart is just a metaphor, and at the most the heart is a mechanism for the blood. But that is not the heart that the mystics have talked about. There is a center deep inside you,and that center can only be known through trust. Meditation is a jump into trust. it is a love affair with God, the divine. The head will condemn it. But don't listen to the head. Listen to the heart. The heart is the voice of God.”

“When I look into your eyes I see the doubt of lingering questions. The strength of our love And if it can prevail. I see the things you’ve been through. The trail of swept pieces of broken glass. Shining through the dark. I’ve both a broom and a dustpan. And don’t have a problem, Getting on hand and knee. Sometimes, that is stronger than Fear itself. The strength of another to help Get you through the dark. That is what you taught me The first time I met you. I didn’t see any of your fears, Anything that resembled a troubled past. I saw your light. Okay, maybe a hint of glass. But there isn’t a part of me That is afraid to hold on to you With everything that I have. When you look into my eyes. One of the things I sincerely Hope that you see. Is trust. Trust to love gain”