Quotes about ildan-wisdom
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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!
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The hardest roads are often empty the darkest paths are mostly silent toughest destinations are almost peopleless! No easy road brings you great victory!
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Music in war is a candle in the darkness it is a kindness in the Land of Rudeness it is a civilisation in the middle of barbarity it is a wisdom amongst the foolishness!
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One of the most beautiful words is touch it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!
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Winning a game is good but winning a game together with winning your rival’s heart too is brilliant and this is a real winning!
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Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain anything usual makes you sleep!
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You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade it will eventually be caught by the light!
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Spring is not a season it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!
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We are lucky when we are helped while we lose our balance but we are certainly much luckier when we are helped only by ourselves while we lose our balance because the less external-help we get the more inner-strength we gain!
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One-man regimes belong to old eras they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!
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Ants are successful creatures they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!
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Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet darkness can shine!
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Mankind has created many religions most of them are long gone now and finally all will long gone! This truth is an irreversible truth!
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Telling the right thing is not enough it has to be told effectively!
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Hard long roads create tough men dangerous hostile paths create powerful people! Great difficulties create giant guys!
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A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!
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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!
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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!
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Do not try to be attractive just be natural because being natural is already attractive!
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You become rich by helping the poor you become rich also by helping the rich! Helping makes you rich!
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Right path will not always look like a right path wrong path will not always look like a wrong path!
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Sorrow is a heavy burden it must not be carried for a long time!
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There is always a path to our target the problem is to discover it!
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No path is irreversible you just return back and walk!
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A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student but a student who is becoming better than all the masters is a supreme student!
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Tragedy is a disaster but desperation after that tragedy is a much greater disaster!
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Careful minds build durable buildings careless minds build rotten buildings!
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You cannot forever escape from the storm you must learn to stand up to it!
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Universe is frightening we need a protector and a meticulous mind is the best protector it is like a watchful dog which guards us all the time!
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Travel is the best school it has the best teachers because everything seen is a teacher and this colourful school’s diploma is wisdom!
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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!
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Let your mind start your new journey firstly let it travel on that road and then it will come back to you. After then you can start this journey both with your mind and with your body!
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Observe your path ahead carefully see the dangers and the opportunities! By this way you can write your own fate with your own judgements!
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Angry is ugly anger is ugliness!
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Plucking a flower and giving it to someone is not an act of kindness it is a behaviour of killing a defenceless fragile beauty for the sake of our own interest!
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An arrogant rich and a humble poor both need help! The former needs help to be human the latter needs help to live humanely!
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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!
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Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!
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A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations!
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There is no such a thing as missing the train of your life! Life is very rich and very generous it always offers you new opportunities! Already-missed will soon be substituted by the not-missed-yet!
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Curtains are our prisoners they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!
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Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!
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If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!
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If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!
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What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!
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When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!
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If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!
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When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!
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Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!
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There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life - the miracle given to you by the evolution - under all conditions!
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What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!
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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!
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You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!
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When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!
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Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!
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Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!
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Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!
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Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!
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To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!
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Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!
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The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!
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Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!
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Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!
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In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!
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When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!
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To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!
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Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!
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No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!
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Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!
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Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
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There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!
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Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
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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!
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To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!
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Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!
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If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!
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If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!
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A happy face is also a source of happiness!
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Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!
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Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!
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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!
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Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!
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A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!
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For your shadow, you are his shadow!
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If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!
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In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!
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If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!
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Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!
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Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!
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Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!
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In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
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Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!
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Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
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Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!
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Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
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People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!
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Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!
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If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!
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Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself!