When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!
Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!
Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!
The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don’t be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!
Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!
Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!
We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!
To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!
If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!
If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!
Don’t be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!
For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!
People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!
If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!
If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!
