It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly! Mehmet Murat Ildan More Quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan More Quotes From Mehmet Murat Ildan In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down! Mehmet Murat Ildan stars country people In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts! Mehmet Murat Ildan dark-days clever dark In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward! Mehmet Murat Ildan deep-water brave wise In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed! Mehmet Murat Ildan dream house lying In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising! Mehmet Murat Ildan clever men fall In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! Mehmet Murat Ildan greedy height men In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten. Mehmet Murat Ildan remembered forgotten fall In hard times, gold is a good friend and good friend is gold! Mehmet Murat Ildan good-friend hard-times gold In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! Mehmet Murat Ildan foam literature In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have! Mehmet Murat Ildan climbing strong long In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear! Mehmet Murat Ildan matter appreciation compliment In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high! Mehmet Murat Ildan gloomy streets spirit In old age, mirror is not a friend! Mehmet Murat Ildan old-age mirrors age In our dreams, we can't see anything that we haven't put it there! Mehmet Murat Ildan our-dreams havens dream In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude! Mehmet Murat Ildan crowds solitude energy In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep Mehmet Murat Ildan bed sleep men In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember! Mehmet Murat Ildan remembered want remember In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs. Mehmet Murat Ildan owl wings song In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness! Mehmet Murat Ildan eye jobs men In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! Mehmet Murat Ildan untruth gods-will stills
