Quotes and Quotations of Mehmet Murat ildan -71

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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES

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* It is as if sometimes a very strong wind blows from the future to the present time and brings the events you will encounter in the future to this day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you look for happiness in simple things, it becomes very difficult to be unhappy because access to simple things is very simple and easy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Fog can cover anything, anything except itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A man who does not appreciate silence must be sentenced to noise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no need for other types of ghosts and zombies in a world where people walk like a ghost or walk like a zombie because of life anxiety! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you read a good book, you feel something like this in the depths of your soul: You will definitely re-read this book many times! And when you meet the person you love, you will feel the same thing again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a vulnerable little creature needs you, no matter how weak and tired you are, you will suddenly become very powerful because compassion makes one strong! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you give your life a purpose, then you give your purpose a life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes life gives you all the opportunities to sail: There is neither wave nor fog in the sea; even night is illuminated by a full moon! At such times, trust life infinitely and start your journey immediately! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the sun goes down, some are afraid that darkness will fall and some are happy that the stars will come out! Your reaction to what happens in the outside world is more important than what is in the outside world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Smile is an act of conquest! The person you smile at is immediately conquered, as if by an army of a thousand people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A master without students is like a tree with rotting fruits on its branches; on the other hand, a student without a master is like a tree that dries because it is not watered! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* While horrible things are happening around you, sometimes the smartest strategy is to stand still without doing anything! All this turmoil will disappear like a shooting star without touching you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The storm hits the lonely tree more strongly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you feel yourself very far away from the life you long for! It is precisely at that moment that you need to hold on to the life you desire more tightly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sacred place of silent minds and deep souls is the depths of the forest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best but the most difficult way to save humanity is to delete footprints that go nowhere other than stupidity and primitiveness so that no one can follow such paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A danger can find you not almost everywhere, but unarguably everywhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The peaks of the highest mountains are very frightening, but in the spirit of a mountaineer there is something that constantly feeds his courage: An endless desire to succeed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you travel somewhere, the place you travel also travels to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Life is 360 degrees, so you can go in all directions! If you don’t know this, you don’t know how many paths life offers you and thus how rich life is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Why can’t we create a better world? Because those who work for a worse world are more determined than those who work for a better world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We think of fields as non-traveling beings whereas sometimes a wind blows over the field, captures the soul of the field and takes it to other places; you see, fields make invisible journeys every day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nations whose libraries are empty have always been at the bottom of the rankings in history! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The aura of happy days is very wide; it can even reach very distant times and make you happy again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It has never been seen throughout history that an easy road creates a strong person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes a good book catches you, just like a flame catches dry wood! You get trapped in the flame, you can’t get out! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Often, not the storm but the fear of storm beats us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most important thing that a person should understand in life is this: Every day of life can be the last day of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes big waves are hidden inside small waves; the revolt of every big storm starts with a small wave! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Within you, there is you and there is universe! If you eliminate only the universe within you, you become an ordinary person; if you eliminate only you within you, you become an extraordinary person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You found the right teacher, good! The right teacher showed you the right path, good! And now what remains is much more important than the first two things: Walking on this right path till the end with great discipline! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you enter a room full of things, things start speaking; when you enter an empty room, your thoughts start speaking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you observe the world from the reflections on the surface of the tea while calmly drinking tea, then you have gained an appreciable awareness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Perhaps not having experienced any tragedy is also a kind of tragedy because tragedies are one of the important ways to understand life at the highest level! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Even if there is a path to heaven, never mind, walk on a forest path instead! Tend not to fairy tales that look like real, but to realities that look like fairy tales! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Zoo is a real hell created by the devilish human mind and ignorantly supported by the zoo visitors! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Looking at the sea from the photos is not life; going to the seaside and watching the sea or sailing by boat is half-life; full life is to be inside the sea and integrate with it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are on a road that doesn’t shorten when you walk or run, you’re either on an endless road or on a treadmill! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To be silent for a waterfall means to die! And for people who shout out the truth in all circumstances, it is the same thing to be silent! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The magnificent beauty of an unreal discourse does not add any reality to that discourse! A false discourse is a false discourse no matter how masterfully and how powerfully it has been said! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is an utter ignorance to judge a nation with only its negative aspects, ignoring the great contributions of that nation throughout history, especially contributions to science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A humble nobody is more valuable than an arrogant celebrity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best action to understand life is to remain inactive and quietly observe the life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Life respects those who sail from the harbour, not those who sit in the harbour! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If people become happy not when a new church, a new mosque or a new synagogue is opened in the country, but when a new knowledge centre is opened, then it means they have reached a certain mental maturity! What humanity needs is not new places of worship, but new knowledge that can take humanity to new levels, to new places! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The only way for you to improve others is to improve yourself first; and the only way for others to improve you is to improve themselves first! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Escape to nature is not only a simple escape from stupidities in the city, but also a great refreshment to better fight fools and stupidities when you return to the city! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to kill a person without killing him, delete the beautiful memories in his memory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The fact that there are too many churches or too many mosques in a country does not mean that there are too many Christians or too many Muslims in that country, but too many cunning politicians in that country! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you miss the train, those on the train will also miss something because every person has the potential to change the fate of every person they come across! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People have an unethical job that they never get tired of doing for a lifetime: Constantly making their own advertisement! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* By pouring water into a waterless well, you cannot revive it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The coronavirus caused countless damages to the world, but it also created some benefits: The world is now a more mysterious, more enigmatic place with all those masked people! As if the faces disappeared, only eyes remained! As if the tongues have disappeared, only the eyes speak telepathically! We, the people of the Earth, became an Alien on Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you climb up to the highest point of a mountain, the mountain will climb down to your lowest point! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the river meets the ocean, the memories of the river meet the memories of the ocean. These two different worlds have many stories to tell each other! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People wake up in the morning; there are many masks in their rooms, and today they decide which mask to wear! Man has only one face, but a thousand masks! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how slow you walk, if you nonetheless reach the end of the road very quickly, then you are one of the transitory shadows walking on the path of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If there is only one daisy among a thousand roses, all the interest flows there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The question is not whether you can make a difference in the world but what useful difference you can make! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The student asked: Master, if I get the wisdom of all the trees in the forest one by one, will I be the best wise man in the forest? The master replied: No, you won’t be, because the wise man does not try to be anything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is always wise to inject a piece of reality into the madness of our dreams! For example, we should add the harsh winds of winter to our dream of a magnificent wooden house on the top of a mountain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Think of the strangest thing you have ever done in your life! If you compare it with thousands of very strange things you can do, it will definitely look very ordinary! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When we talk about a mysterious temple covered with fog in the forest, we should know that the mysterious thing is actually our mind, not the temple! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Man is a very strange creature! He wants to be on a floating ship in the sea while sitting on the shore; and while sitting on the ship, he wants to be sitting on a fixed bench on the shore! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some words were considered absurd in the era they were said because those words were said for the people in the future eras! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Your stance against the world is more important than the stance of the world against you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have found a path worth to walk, never complain about walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no person in the world who doesn’t leave a trace while walking! The whole matter is to leave a muddy ugly trace like a frog or a beamy beautiful trace like a comet? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have a great ability that can be very beneficial to humanity, it is a great treason to humanity to not use it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Physically a dwarf, mentally a giant! Here is the human being in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are on the road to hell, you can continue your journey for a while for the sake of obtaining some interesting experience, but don’t forget to make a U-turn before the end of the road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The storm does evil, but it also has a morality: To treat everything equally while ruining everything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you wear the same dress as reality, you will not add colour to reality! If you wear a black dress in the darkness, the darkness will not get richer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The Earth offers us fruits, water, milk, honey, but we try to kill Earth by biting it like a venomous snake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Look at the waves on the shore! They are passionate until they reach the shore, and then, passion ends! When you reach the target, that strong fire which took you to the target extinguishes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Any person who contributes to the arms industry is an evil person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best way to fully acquire the wisdom of the ruins is to do exactly the same journey they did! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The Moon is a wise man, not an intellectual, because the Moon does not bore us like a chattering intellectual, it quietly observes the Earth, listens and thinks! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no one as hypocritical as a man who massacred a tree in one place and cooled in the shadow of a tree in another place! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When going down the stairs, if there is a strong wind blowing from below, it might be useful to think this: Maybe the universe wants you to go up! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every ignorant person has a superior ability to ruin things, and if a clever man does not know this and does not take the necessary precautions, he is too ignorant! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can find everything you see in this world extraordinary! Or you don’t find anything you see in this world extraordinary! In the first case, everything is extraordinary, in the second case, nothing is extraordinary! The world is how you see the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Someone who swims in the sea after the sunset cannot decide where to look: To look at the moon, the waves, the stars, or the clouds? The truth is when everywhere looks perfect it doesn’t matter where you look! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Human beings carry a strong mind within a weak body! If it were the other way around, it would have lost the chance of being in the universe for a very long time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We can never accomplish great things in the universe by focusing on our infinite smallness within the universe! What we have to do is feel confident in ourselves by knowing that we have an infinite mind that is greater than the infinite size of the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* May our endless applause be for the person who finds an endless path in a universe where all paths end! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For locked doors, don’t go straight to the window, because the person who locks the door has also locked the window! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you meet someone of the same religion and you immediately feel close to him, then you haven’t learned to be human yet! Because being human means ignoring the religion, race and colour of the person you meet, and it means seeing only the human in him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Genius deserves respect only if it is used in a way that is beneficial to humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest disaster for a country is that the government, nation, and opposition trio are all rotten, because if only one of them were not rotten, the country would find a way out of the dark! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you think life is treating you badly, you are doing unfairness to life! You hit your foot against the rock and then you get angry with the rock! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In order to continue to exist in this universe, we have no choice but to first understand the universe in all its details! If we miss an important detail, we will be terminated in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Selling a book you love is like selling your soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can give up the walls of your house, but never give up the windows! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Seeing is enough to look, but looking is not enough to see! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What is the mission of the wave in the ocean? It is to angrily explain that the ocean is not a lake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildans

* If you chain a free soul somewhere, you’ll see those chains begin to melt quickly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildans

* When the dimensions of your courage are greater than that of the danger, the danger which tries to scare you starts to be afraid of you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Yes, life is a place to write a story, and writing an ordinary story is easy, but writing a beautiful and unusual story that everyone admires is difficult! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best way to change the destiny of the world is to carry children into the world of wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The student spoke: Master, I will forever be your follower, I will follow you like a shadow! The master spoke: I have one shadow, I don’t need the second one! When you come out of this temple, walk your way, with no one in front of you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you go to an abandoned railway and start waiting for a train with great faith, you will surely find optimistic idiots who will believe in you and start waiting for the train with you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The true value of a country is determined not by what it builds with rich underground resources such as oil and natural gas, but by what it builds with hard work and intelligence without having such underground resources! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The part of a tree that you really should respect is not the visible part, but the invisible part, the roots of the tree! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are not afraid of a big wave, the wave will not get smaller, but your ability to defeat the wave will get bigger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A curious eye means a hundred eyes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* While watching a divine view with great admiration, all those stupid desires and endless ambitions of life seem to us nothing but nauseous things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Universe is a place of endless problems and to survive you need to find endless solutions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Art is the act of adding our own art to the magnificent art of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In order to be able to say something that no one knows about, it is firstly necessary to know everything that everyone knows one by one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Walking in shoes is physical walking, but walking barefoot is spiritual walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you sit in the darkness and write poems about the beauty of light, that doesn’t mean you understand the importance of light! The whole point is to praise the light not when you don’t have it but when you have it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on the contrary, help us make a big leap in our evolutionary development! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t go straight on a curved road! Unless you have the power to change reality, you must submit to reality! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You may look into the horizon of time and see nothing, and it only means that you have very little eyesight! You must know that an infinite number of things always come from the horizon of time; they are just on the way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Making friends is a talent reserved only for clever people; as for fools, they always make enemies! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The storm’s mission is to remove the pink glasses from our eyes and to make us see the universe in its realistic form! And what is the reality? The reality is that the universe is a heaven of danger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The first condition of deserving your existence is to be grateful for your existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For some people, empty streets are a horror, for others empty streets are a joy! It’s all about hating or enjoying solitude! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A night spent in the desert means a night spent in the space! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Are you sure you can walk tomorrow? Are you sure that tomorrow you will run, watch the sunset, swim in the sea, and sing? No, you are not sure, you cannot be sure! So walk today, run today, watch the sunset today, swim in the sea today, and sing today! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Create a time for yourself to get lost somewhere you don’t know! If you get lost and learn to find your way once, getting lost will never challenge you again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how beautiful a palace is, if the public who financed the palace do not live there, then that place is nothing but a show site occupied by unethical jesters who deceived the people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If your mind is open, you will see even with your eyes closed; if your mind is closed, you will not see even with your eyes open! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We can no longer use the adjective ‘street’ for a street full of trees! We should call it a real temple, a beautiful sanctuary, a real living being! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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MMI QUOTATIONS

MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

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* If you put people in a perfect paradise which is more than enough for the world population, they will still start making war with each other to catch the best corner there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A huge storm appearing on the horizon both scares and fascinates! When you are afraid, you want to escape; when you are fascinated, you want to run towards the storm! The storm both pushes and pulls you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

*If the agenda in a country is constantly changing, sometimes even hourly, you must know that you are governed by ignorant and incompetent! And perhaps worse, you are run by traitors who only serve foreign country interests! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The promised saviour of all times is human mind itself! All the solutions humanity needs for its endless problems shall be found by the human mind. If you are looking for a prophet to save the world, do not seek, for he is here, the human mind itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The clever person is not among the crowd, but outside of it! He has his own way, free from crowds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* More windows, less darkness; less darkness, more vision; more vision, more wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Is there a firefighter afraid of fire? Yes, there are many! However, it is obvious that the love for the firefighting profession is much greater than this fear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no such thing that humanity is strong enough to deal with every obstacle the universe puts before humanity! There is always a possibility of big defeat and extinction! Knowing this is an advantage for the future of humanity! Not knowing this is just an arrogance and ignorance! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You always find strength to walk on a wonderful path because even if you have no strength at all, the path will give you the necessary power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a terrible disease in humans: To look much more good, much more compassionate, much more helpful, in short, to look much more virtuous than what they really are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The misfortune of the world is that people who are too incompetent to be managers even in an apartment block come to the top management of the countries! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In times of hard times, we learn something incredibly precious: The fist of the universe can hit us anywhere anytime; make your preparation before the universe attacks you! In this universe, those who anticipate the thoughts and actions of the universe beforehand will survive! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Our greatest weapon against the difficult times we are facing in this universe is our ability to hope! And with hope, we will be able to cope with anything possible! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Despite all its dangers and tragedies, we will never stop to dedicate ourselves to life because all the beautiful things in life outweighs all the ugly things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you enter a dense fog on the road you are traveling! What should you do? Very simple! Take a break from the journey, wait calmly, the fog will be dispersed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People who always feel great sadness for not living in the extraordinary times of history are now upset that they obtained the opportunity to experience one of the extraordinary days of history with the coronavirus! When the scary face of truth appears, romantic thoughts disappear! Remember, ordinary days are the best days! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One disaster makes you forget another disaster! Then a much bigger disaster comes and makes you forget all the other disasters! This universe works like this! If your move is smarter than the move of the universe, only then you be safe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A swan looking at the world from a misty calm lake is like a creature looking at the world from space! All he sees is a large herd of people governed by the most stupid and most inadequate people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The leaf does not immediately absorb the drop of water falling on it; she slowly drinks with great pleasure! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the world is in chaos, a place which is calm and peaceful is a precious paradise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can never defeat an enemy you underestimate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A recommendation for those who stay at home and read books due to coronavirus epidemic: In these historical days we are going through, read virus history books, supervolcano eruption books or asteroid impact books instead of romance novels, travel novels, etc.! Increases in the awareness about the dangers of the universe is a very important achievement for the future of humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The coronavirus has revealed a very important fact: There are 206 countries in the world, but there are only a few first-class countries that are very successful in protecting their citizens against the virus, that behaved early and swiftly! And the remaining so-called states should be called tribes instead of the state! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world will somehow manage to get rid of the coronavirus, most probably with extraordinary death tolls. But then guess what happens? The world will go back to its routine stupidities, namely the wars, supporting the dictators, voting for stupid politicians, destroying the forests, killing earth’s climate etc.! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Religious people often talk about the perfectly created human body! What a great bullshit and what a great fallacy! And such perfection is now almost looking for a rat hole to hide from a small virus called corona! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Take a look at the events happening in the world from a distance and from different angles! If you look at things like someone from inside, you can’t see where things are going! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are traveling on a very dangerous road, you will either die or gain great experiences and become much stronger than before! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People whistle or sing while passing near a cemetery in the darkness! The same thing is happening now: The fear of coronavirus pushes people to give morale to themselves! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Is coronavirus a divine punishment for humanity? Nonsense! So what is this? What are you? You’re just a creature trying to exist! And the virus is also a creature trying to exist! All this is just about trying to survive! There is nothing divine here, nothing devilish here! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Trees that start to bloom in spring despite all kinds of adverse weather conditions give mankind the following message: Even if you are not physically stronger than a power that wants to destroy you, it won’t destroy you as long as you are psychologically stronger than him! The power of perseverance is above everything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sun cannot suddenly rise in the middle of the night! It will take some time before we are blessed by the light! Wait for the dawn, brother! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You cannot fool some nations with only the truths! They believe in whatever you say outside of the truth! They are only deceived by things that are not real! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The coronavirus showed us the following fact: If the money spent on churches, temples, mosques, the arms industry and so on was spent on medical science and hospitals, humanity would be in a much safer world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On one side there are cowardly prime ministers, presidents, queens, kings who lock themselves in their castles, palaces and rooms! On the other hand, there are honourable statesmen who visit hospitals after taking necessary personal precautions! Honourable politician is the person who is at the front of the front in times of great crisis like corona pandemic! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We see in the cartoons, a huge signboard hangs over the world: Sorry, we are closed! The point here is this: When the world is reopened, will there be a smarter world with its coronavirus experience? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes an earthquake or a volcano shake the world, sometimes a virus, sometimes a huge typhoon, sometimes a tsunami! All of them have a common message: Awake to the Truth! And what is the truth? The truth is that Earth and the universe are not a region of order, but a region of chaos and survival! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One of the most important elements that keeps the human spirit high is the beauty of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One of the greatest responsibilities for the people of our time is to accept everything that he hears in the pro-government media as a lie and to investigate the truth from independent sources personally! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to see the big problems of the world, not the small ones, look at the world from above like an eagle! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Thousands and thousands are dying due to coronavirus and yet when this thing is over the humanity will declare a victory! What victory? Fools! There is no victory for the dead people! And when it comes to the living people, everyone should have a deep sadness in their soul, not a brag of victory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What could be smarter than going to camping in a deserted forest in a global pandemic time? However, even without such a pandemic, the smartest thing to do would be camping again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Oases scare people because they are too beautiful to be true! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Tomorrow, a virus can come up and start killing only the animals! Or an asteroid can threaten all the lives on earth! Earth needs humans, no doubt, because only the humans have the capacity to prevent some future natural or cosmic disasters! But what kind of humans? Earth needs eco-friendly humans, not stupid greedy capitalists! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The bad things are actually good things for awakening! But the best thing is to be awakened before the bad things happen! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The footsteps of the storm are the most compassionate part of the storm! Before the storm comes with all its might, it sends you hard breezes and warns you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* I guess after the coronavirus epidemic, many began to think that a visible danger is much better than an invisible danger! But in fact, there is only one criterion that really matters about the dangers: Be faster and be smarter than danger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Concentrate not on what drives you to the loneliness but on the wisdom that you will gain in loneliness! When you return back to the crowds, you will be more mature and smarter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In countries ruled by stupid or treacherous politicians, the sun does not rise, problems are not solved, and lies do not end! Beauty, not ugliness; darkness, not light dominates everywhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sunrise is always a source of morale for human beings; In the days when the world experiences global disasters, sunrise becomes almost an angel! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A person with a well-developed conscience sitting in a peaceful corner of the world becomes uneasy when thinking of the tragedies in the peaceless corners of the world! There is no escape from the truth for the sensitive people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the world returns to its order before the coronavirus epidemic, the world will once again prove to be very stupid! The coronavirus outbreak is an opportunity! An opportunity for what? It is an opportunity to destroy the arms industry; it is an opportunity make peace with nature, to get rid of stupid ambitions, for a new world order primarily focused on health, art and science; it is an opportunity to be a humanity with human values! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you embark on a ship and sail to the ocean, then a terrible storm begins; the port you go to loses its meaning; the port you left loses its meaning! Now, there is only one thing that matters: Getting to any port! Sometimes life’s purpose is reduced to one single goal: To exist! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is good to go boldly and quickly on some roads, but on some roads it is absolutely necessary to go with fear and very slowly! Fear and slow move can help you stay alive! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Being ruined by politicians of your choice means drowning in the waves you have created yourself! And did you deserve this? Yes, you did! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the leaf wants to travel the world and gain wisdom, it begins to pray that the wind blows strongly! Whoever wants to be a wise man should carry his footprints to the land he has never known before! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you watch the world in silence, you will have more chance to understand how the world is a miraculous ship! It is totally up to man that this blue ship continues its travel in the infinity of the universe together with all its passengers! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Destination can be ignored but not the journey, because journey represents the life itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You know how fragile the shadow is! A light falls on it and the shadow disappears! Some of the shadows that we fear and believe that they will always rule our lives also suddenly disappear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you discover a world you do not know, and then you start to find the world you know very boring! Sometimes when you win a world, you lose another world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People living on the plains do not wonder what is happening on the top of the high mountain, but a person who climbs to the top of the high mountain wonders what is going on in the lowlands! Why? Because there is crowd and rush, ignorance and shouting, war and all kinds of stupidity down there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Falling into the abyss has never been a fate for those with wings! Bad things that are not capable of putting obstacles in your way can never be your destiny! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You will come to many crossroads throughout your life! Sometimes you will be very lucky because both ways will be the right way. Sometimes you will be very unlucky because both ways will be the wrong way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The bridge makes life easier; but the cliff makes you stronger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Shadow is a very intelligent creature; he always finds a way to get our attention! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you have to go through a very difficult place! All you need to know is that you have to go through it, and just knowing this will be the biggest source of power for you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you look at a street full of people, you start watching people; when you look at an empty street without people, you start thinking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Protecting the elderly, keeping them alive is keeping our memories alive in real life; it is to keep our past literally in today’s time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most important thing that the coronavirus teaches humanity is this: Let’s not exaggerate the level that our civilization has reached! It is a great arrogance to see ourselves so great! And here is a little virus reminded us of this! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Seeing your own country in the darkness does not scare you very much, because knowing that there is light elsewhere makes you comfortable! But it is scary to see the world in the darkness because there is no light wherever you go, you have nowhere to escape! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes no castle, no shield, no weapon can protect you against your enemy! In such cases, the only thing to do is to compromise with the enemy! This is not a weakness or defeat; on the contrary, it is to gather strength to defeat the enemy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

*If you have found the right way with your own efforts, you are very brave; but if the right way has come and found you, then you are very lucky! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for the architect and the workers who built this cathedral; on the other hand, the feeling of great anger for those who spent so much money on this cathedral, instead of spending this money for the hungry people who can’t even find bread! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The morning sun is alive, the morning mind is agile, the morning plans are rich! The mission of the morning is to energize everything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An ordinary house outside the city is beautiful; an ordinary house in the forest outside the city is much more beautiful, but a stone house in the forest outside the city is extraordinarily beautiful! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the world after coronavirus is not going to be a much more greener, much more environmentally friendly and much more vegetarian world, human beings will deserve a much worse virus than coronavirus! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In a place where the mind works very well, an exit from the darkness will always be found! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On Earth Day, the Moon in the sky also has a very valuable message to us: If you cannot maintain your atmosphere, you turn into the Moon, a pointless inanimate place! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If one day there is only one person left living in the world, that person will no longer have a message to humanity, but only a message to extra-terrestrial beings! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You don’t know anything without knowing other lives, other worlds, other roads, other streets, other seas, other rains, other storms, other everything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Arrogant humanity always thinks that among all living beings only humans can write a sensational story in the world! But here’s a nano organism called coronavirus – just like other microorganisms of the past – proved the opposite of this! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Mostly the restless people of the valleys climb the tough peaks of the mountains! The rest, the peaceful ones always stay in the valleys! Adventure is the invention of restless minds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In times of this corona pandemic, people often ask when the world will return to its normal days! Don’t wait for normal days! Assume that abnormal days are normal days! Today’s abnormal normal is now our new normal! The world may not return to its old days; the smart person is the person who adapts to the changing world! All days are normal as long as you adjust yourself to the changes no matter how dramatic these changes are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On the road to your target, you see other roads to other targets! Those who are hopeless from their target often turn to these new targets and disappear on the horizon of these new roads! The lover cannot usually reach his targeted love for the same reason! All targets require strict concentration and all distractions are the enemies of reaching the targets! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only dangerous things can tell you how dangerous the world you live in! If you focus on innocent lambs, you get a wrong idea about this universe! Focus on poisonous snakes if you want to progress in the art of existence in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The worst nightmare is the nightmare that continues even when you wake up! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sun slowly sets as if it gives you time to get ready for the darkness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A goodness you do by waiting for a return is not a goodness, but just a cunning investment in the future! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The coronavirus pandemic will show us something embarrassing that we have known for centuries in human history: The dead will be forgotten quickly, and those who live will just start celebrations because they will live only a little longer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can fall in love with an image and you can forget whom this image really belongs to! You can look at the reflection and completely forget what is reflected! You can ignore the real and follow the unreal! But ultimately, your destination will not be where you want to arrive!  You will only arrive in something fake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Night, rain, silence, empty streets and tram, when you see all of them together, you feel like you are on the pages of a novel! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is very funny and arrogant that countries that have not yet made a serious contribution to civilization make fun of countries that have contributed greatly to civilization but are now in decline! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Does the man sitting in the valley and belittling the mountain don’t know that the water in the valley comes from the mountain? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Mind is the most beautiful temple and thinking is the best worship! He who enters this temple and continuingly practice thinking will reach the unreachable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Humanity will only get a chance to exist in this universe for a very long time, only when humanity becomes a single army fighting against the universe instead of fighting each other! A humanity fighting in itself wastes valuable energy in this chaotic universe where there is a race against time to survive! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* The greatest happiness is to find a peaceful corner when you desperately in need of calmness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to have a spiritual experience with nature, you should wander alone in nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The difference between people with small eagerness and people with big goals is this: The first group gets tired even when they walk a hundred meters; the second group never gets tired even when they walk a thousand kilometres! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The storm likes to go where it’s not invited, not where it’s invited! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You are a temporary point in time! This is all you really need to be upset about! And this is all you really need to solve! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to see yourself closely, look at yourself from far away! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A fascist government is the most coward government in the world and a fascist leader is the most coward person in the world! He knows very well that on the day he lost his power he will be replaced by the people he has unfairly sent to jail and to the cemeteries! With this great fear, he becomes more and more demonic, more and more bestial! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t always try to design your life! Sometimes let life do it for you for a while! This will enrich your life and give you time to have a good rest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The problem in a perfect valley between the ugly mountains is this: Perfection can be boring and one can climb ugly mountains to feel happy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Look for a way to make your temporary life permanent! Otherwise one day wind blows and you disappear into the unknown places, like a grain of dust! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest difference between a river and a river of crowds is that the first always reaches its goal, but the second usually gets tired and disperses before it reaches its goal! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are traveling in a calm lake while the world is struggling in a very stormy ocean, you have a very good reason to think that you are truly blessed by the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the paths of life gets narrow, you must expand the paths in your mind so you can continue on your path by breathing comfortably until the paths of life expand! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For a person who is thirsty for silence, walking on the quietest paths and wandering around the most tongueless corners means listening to the most peaceful music! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If there is an endless bridge, then there is an endless abyss! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Time changes your face in a bad way; wisdom changes your mind in a good way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a shepherd needs a shepherd for himself, then the herd of that shepherd is in danger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Storms think that they will scare everyone on their path, but they are very mistaken because they have forgotten the stormy souls who are afraid of nothing! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To understand the universe and life deeply, it is necessary to get away from the crowds because crowds means chattering, it means producing empty words, it means not thinking! The crowd is a huge waste of time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Many mysteries are like invisible ghosts during the day; when the night comes, all those ghosts begin to be visible! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The way to love the world is to know the world! But cities are not the world; churches and mosques are not the world; skyscrapers, airports are not the world! The tree is the world, the birds are the world, the blowing wind is the world, and the waves are the world! If you want to love the world, see real the world, that is, the world which we did not build, the world that was here long before us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can look at very crowded roads and experience the illusion that those roads will always exist! You may think that the religion you belong to will always exist! Then you are so ignorant that you don’t know that even the traces of the crowded roads that were once used have started to be erased! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To learn something from you, the forest silently observes you and quietly listens to you! If you want to learn something from the forest, do the same thing! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Life may be too short for your big universal dreams that will take too long to come true! Let it be! Even if you fail, some will embrace your dream and continue after you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most awesome mission of the storm is that it reminds us that the universe is never actually a calm garden with flowers! Peace is always an exception in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the unique beauty of nature, the photographer’s amazing ability and the perfect light of the sun come together, a genius photo appears where art looks more real than the reality! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Discipline – just like a crane – pulls you up from the lazy crowd and puts you in a high place that everyone can see! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The values of a nation that contradict the values of reason and science have no importance! Respecting such values is an insult to reason and disrespect to science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The moment you realise that the future is at the mercy of thousands of possibilities, you start seeing the truth that tomorrow is only hypothetical! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A genius teacher loses time with a mediocre student! A genius student experiences the same thing with a mediocre teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Anything that encourages you to think will do you an eternal favour, because we can respond to many dangerous moves of life only by acquiring wisdom through practicing thinking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A walk you made by disappearing amongst the green grasses is always richer than a walk you make amongst the green emeralds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you are not followed by anyone, you are free to go to anywhere, even to hell! But if you are followed by others, you lose your right to be free to go anywhere because now you are a shepherd and a shepherd who has a herd can never be free! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have a very safe life, you will eventually miss a less safe life because real life mostly exists in places where the risk is high! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every living creature is the eyes of the universe in which this universe watches itself!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The wisest young is the young who can look at the world through the eyes of the elderly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A strong mind-locked to its target burns and destroys all obstacles on his way like a laser gun! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No umbrella’s colour matters under torrential rain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We took a lot from the universe, we owe it; but the universe owes us too, because he obtained the opportunity to get to know himself through us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no way to live only in your own story; one way or another, you will get into the story of others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest obstacle to all revolutions is usually this sentence: Be patient, bad days will pass, good days will come! This is just a ridiculous sentence! A country in need of revolution needs an immediate revolution, not patience, not even for a second! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most tragic discovery is the perfect path discovered towards the end of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can say that God is a great artist or the Universe is a great artist or Nature is a great artist! As long as you reject the childish story that says God or the Universe or Nature is a book-sender, you’re in a reasonable thinking space! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On the one hand, nature enriches our soul with its eternal beauty, on the other hand, it enriches our survival skills with its endless disasters! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The holiest time is the time you dedicate yourself to your own personal development because it is this holy time that determines the most beautiful things you can give to others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Having a secret hiding place where no one can reach you and where you can reborn by repairing your mind and body with the silence of loneliness is not a luxury but it is a necessity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Here is a great day, here is a perfect choice! A camp in nature! What else do you need? You don’t have to dream because you are in a dream now! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If we want to exist in this universe for millions and billions of years, we must constantly deepen our minds to understand this universe in depth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are afraid of the stairs then you are afraid of life because life is full of stairs! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The person walking very confidently on an empty road will see that after a while many people start following him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An empty beach is a perfect place to both fill and empty the mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world does not need more believers, it needs more skeptics! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wisdom is to retract our ‘self’ in our minds and bring the universe forward! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Man can work anywhere and under any condition, but working in a very beautiful place under very beautiful conditions will surely create superior things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are adding another beauty to a beauty, then you have a soul of an artist! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you keep every person you know in your life, you will turn into a dirty park without a trash can! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is one thing that is more important than a house being beautiful: The surroundings of the house must be beautiful! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a government has the weak eyesight of a mole, that government only brings disaster to that country! The ability to see far is an absolute must to be a good government! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nobody needs a magic because we are all surrounded by the magic of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In a country that tries to pull you down with all its stupidity, all your struggle must be to work hard so as to stay on high! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In the most forgotten parts of the world, you can find the things you will remember the most in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest weapon of billions of people against the difficulties of life is ‘the desperation solutions’ that sadden humanity instead of ‘real solutions’ that suit human dignity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes the streets are so quiet that you don’t want to move and break that silence; and you stand in a corner and listen to the silence in admiration! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you sometimes hear a mysterious voice in your mind that wants to direct you to a very big goal beyond your small and simple dreams, such as a beautiful car, a beautiful house, a beautiful holiday, listen to that voice! Because only when the human soul reaches great goals, it shines with glory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a bad captain is able to travel on the sea, it is just because the wind allows him to do so! If a good captain is able to travel in the storm, it is because he is a good captain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Do we deserve to find a new earth very similar to ours? No and no! Till we deserve to live on our planet destroyed by our greed, we will not be deserving another miracle-earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more an architect puts nature at the forefront when drawing a building, the more successful he is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every danger you can control gives you a mysterious joy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Totalitarian regimes hate thinking-people because the thinking-people spits on the borders created to restrict freedoms, and they cross that border without any hesitation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Take a look at photos where a person who is still alive and a person who died are together! Here lies a real illusion here! As if two birds were together, one flew away, but still the two are together! One of the two stones in the river has drifted away, but both are still side by side! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Is the path to wisdom long or short? It is neither long nor short! The length or shortness of the path to wisdom is entirely up to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There are only two types of people: Sleepers and awake! And there are only two types of sleepers: Those who sleep happily in deep sleep and those who are tired of sleeping in the dark, who want to wake up now! And the purpose of those who are awake is to shed light on those who want to wake up! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you look at the ending as the beginning and the beginning as the ending, then there is no ending and there is no beginning! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the world is listening to your music, then you have made really a good music! If only those in your country are listening to your music, sit down and make music again! Keep making music until the whole world is your listener! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No one dares to put every thought in his mind in a showcase that everyone can see! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Hope is to insistently see a rainbow inside a terrible storm! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The easiest way to leave this world without leaving this world is to stand in the middle of a bridge and watch the surroundings! ! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you think you are on the wrong path while walking on the right path, you can decide to leave the right path, and if this is not an obvious stupidity, what else it is? Perhaps we can say it is a tragicomedy – to say the least! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you sharply criticize people and show them the right way, you will be alone like a lighthouse! If you constantly praise them, you will become a hero in their eyes! Which of these is an honourable behaviour? Of course, the first one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no person in need of being touched as much as a person who thinks something hot is touching even when a piece of ice touches! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.

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* If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The earth is too precious to lose, too beautiful to neglect, too good to betray and too miraculous to renounce! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A river never wants to turn into a lake! And a person who likes to flow like a river never wants to be something stagnant like a lake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A crowd-loving person will be deprived of the treasures of silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the wild wave meets the calm beach, when anger reaches tranquillity, anger disappears, serenity triumphs, the wave experiences enlightenment! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Time does not stop in the world as the sun sets, but time stops in your mind and you remain motionless just like a statue! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A quiet corner where you meet yourself is so valuable that you get mental clarity over there that can make the best plan to destroy whatever problem you have! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

 * The world needs free souls and free souls need a free world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nothing happens all of a sudden! There is always a long story behind anything happens, a long story that you haven’t been able to see! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can always make the place you live, your behaviour, your words, your plans, your dreams, in short, your destiny more beautiful because what we call destiny is largely a life you set! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We built zoos because we are cruel, because we care not about the freedom of others, but only our own freedom, because animals are weak and we love to crush the weak, because we never understood and we are still not understanding that all living things have feelings like us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People who have the ability to create paradise in hell are real heroes that challenge all the negativities of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Distance means travel; travel means reaching new worlds, new lives, new ideas and we are so lucky that our universe offers us endless distances! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People are afraid of deserted roads, whereas you encounter yourself on deserted roads and meet your soul that you lost in the crowds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If all the doors you encountered in life were open, then you were ruined! Remember, you didn’t go to the wrong worlds just because some doors were closed, and because you didn’t walk on some roads, you got rid of some evil! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Any goodness you do in a war and any humanity you show towards any living beings will make you less soldier and more human! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to have an incredible life, you must travel on the incredible roads! Ordinary roads create only ordinary lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is something strange in the silence of a winter view: Something seems to happen, but nothing happens, as if all reality is frozen! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have an ability to change people’s direction, you must first be sure that they are going to the wrong direction! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You are thinking constantly about the path you wish to walk! You are talking about that path non-stop! You continuously watch that path from a distance! Leave all these things aside, brother! Go to the way and walk the way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can walk on the light, you get endless paths to go anywhere in the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A night on the mountain is better than a thousand nights in the city because you meet the universe on the mountain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can integrate with the road and be a part of the road, you don’t have to walk the road and now you can just help other people who walk the road because now you are the road itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The house of your dreams is the house where you stopped dreaming of your dream house because you already own it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Stone houses give us the feeling of ‘something that remains unchanged’, which we always look for in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes big, fancy roads don’t arouse your interest, but a simple and humble little path steals your heart! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most dangerous light is the light in which darkness is hidden! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is nice to dream but the best thing is to make a successful simulation before you realize your dream, that is, to find out how you will feel if your dream comes true! In this way, you can give up your wrong dreams! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A happy corner of nature hidden from the world will remain happy as long as it remains hidden from the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On the day we begin to see animals as our friends, we will get back some of our human attributes that we lost a long time ago! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For someone who is hungry for the wisdom of the past, the smell of books in a bibliopole is more beautiful than the smell of the world’s finest dishes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sunset is a perfect moment to forget some things rather than a moment to remember some things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Any place where you feel perfectly happy is a perfect place! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A forest tree cannot help a lonely tree in its battle for existence, because such a battle requires the knowledge of loneliness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the water is calm, the boat is also calm! If your thoughts are calm, your life is also calm! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every second you spend on a road that does not make your soul happy will come to you like a thousand years! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Without having a peaceful quiet corner, you drift meaninglessly in front of the crowd’s cacophony! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The secret of a determined mind leaving all obstacles behind and reaching its goal is simple: The mind concentrates on the target, not on the obstacles! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sunset is always wiser than sunrise because sunset has added the experience of an entire day to his soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The worst part of being very well-prepared for a disaster is this: Now you start wanting that disaster to happen! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you live in a gigantic noisy city that doesn’t sleep even at night, a small town which is quiet even during the day becomes the name of eternal peace! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The full moon appears at night with all its might and erases all the stars from the sky! Do the same to impress the world, stand in front of the world with all your strength and all your being! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We think that the time machine was not invented, but the candle is actually a time machine! Light a candle and get out of the moment you are in, travel to other times! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There are degrees of reality: Sitting inside a train is a reality, but opening the door and watching outside while the train is in motion is a more advanced-degree reality! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An unbearable unhappiness can make a young person unbelievably mature! Pain is a yeast; anyone whose soul is injected with this yeast transforms into something hard, just like a milk turning into a cheese! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Go to nature to get your stolen soul back! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We hope the truth will visit our minds, not among the crowds, but in an isolated place, in the middle of nowhere! But the truth is that the truth can visit us anywhere, anytime! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When anyone or anything does something different, everyone or everything around her gets a chance to learn something different, something new that can make a difference in their lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* He who cannot shape himself first can never shape the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is only one way to understand a lonely bench in a park: Sit on it; watch whatever it is watching; listen whatever it is listening to! Sit in spring, sit in winter, sit in summer! To understand something deeply, you need to live its life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When wisdom is silent, all you can hear is nonsense! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatness of a mountain comes neither from its height nor from its massive mass; but his greatness comes from the calm of his stance against the harsh conditions of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* States have collapsed, empires have disappeared, epochs ended, new eras have begun, but the Egyptian Pyramids are still standing! Why? Because those who built these pyramids had an endless desire to become a permanent part of eternity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how beautifully you decorate a house, if there is no library in the house, then it cannot be a beautiful house! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes it is as if a target shows itself to you from afar; as if it has chosen you, and all you have to do is walk towards it, just like a thirsty person walking excitedly towards a fountain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The crowd prevents thinking! If you do not give up crowds, you will give up thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Corners are very important in life, because you can’t see what is hidden beyond the corner! Those who are good at guessing what is hidden easily triumph on the path of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re really ready to sail, then the sea, the wind and the ship will be ready too! You must be ready first for the universe to help you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes so much unhappy moments come to your life that you can be happy only by thinking about the happinesses of the past! Sometimes you are faced with such ugliness that you can remain standing only by remembering the beauties of the past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t feel lonely even when you’re all alone, then you like loneliness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are not asking when the road will end, where the road is going, when the weather will darken, what are the dangers on the road, you should know that you are traveling on a great road! On a fascinating road, you only think about the beauty of the road, you never ask questions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Does the mountain panic when dark clouds cover the mountain? Never! Because the negativities of life never anchor to a port and stop there, they come and go! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to be the horizon itself, walk to the horizon without stopping! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Yes, some of our dreams are nothing more than a waste of time, but they still enrich our soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t go to very difficult roads, you will only reach places where everyone reaches! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best way to make smaller a big mountain is to climb that mountain; the best way to shorten a long road is to travel on that road! Anything that looks big or long to you is actually because you didn’t go to it, because you didn’t live it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t miss the stars if you miss the sunset; don’t miss the sunrise if you miss the stars! Don’t you see, nature offers you beauties one after another to compensate for the beauties you have missed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t escape the thoughts on a rainy day: In the spirit of the gloom there is a talisman that keeps people from having fun and invites them to the world of thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Humanity has eyes that are sharp enough to see the poor who collect garbage from the dumps, but humanity does not have enough heart to help them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is a real art to combine different types of pleasure and create a super pleasure, like reading a nice book inside a hot bathtub in an open air while the sun is setting! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The road you know limits your life; the only thing that will give you the opportunity to expand your life is the road you don’t know! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In order for the weakest to be the strongest, he must know all the struggles of the strongest on their way to be the strongest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes a misty lake becomes so calm in the early morning that a person who is boating thinks he is dead, as if there is only existence but not himself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes fascism comes to a country like a train that emits a thick black smoke and whistles very loudly, but some countries are so sleepy that it is too late when they have noticed this train! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some people call structures like the Egyptian Pyramids as ‘Ancient Ruins’, but we call them ‘Perfect Bridges’ where we can reach and touch the wonderful masters of the past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The length and difficulty of the path to your destination does not depend on the path itself, it depends on your abilities! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes we all want to be like a statue: Always calm; always observer; always listening; always fearless and always inspiring! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Real life begins when the burden of life is too much to bear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are a very clever person, sometimes you have to hide your mind in some places because the world at times offers great opportunities to the clever person and at times it tries to crush him like a cockroach! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is foolish to teach calmness to the sea, because for a calm sea, you should teach calmness to the wind, not to the sea! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No breakfast which is not eaten in nature can enter the class of perfect breakfast! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No revolution with a big idea behind it can fail! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you don’t teach a person to think big, that person will always think small! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a silence in the sunset: Every creature thinks about the day that vanished into the past! There are voices of rush in the sunrise: Every creature speaks to himself what life will give to him today and what he will add to the life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have great ambitions in proportion to your talents, this is ok, your talents will feed your ambitions! But if your ambitions are far beyond your talents, then you will always suffer and you will permanently anchor in the harbour of unhappiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you know how to make people happy with a single look, then you are a rose! If you know how to hurt people with a single touch, then you’re a thorn! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t talk with the darkness with a light in your hand! To talk to him, you must end your relationship with light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who look for magic in life are those who do not know that life itself is already a magic! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is not the realities that allure the mind of the poet, but the dreams hidden in the realities! And that’s why the poet loves to look at the reflection, not the reflected! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you go to a quiet place, be quiet! If you want to be respected in the place you visited, merge your soul with the spirit of the air there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The Germans, who wanted Hitler and Germany to be defeated immediately, were true patriots, not traitors! The faster a dictator is defeated, the fewer people die because no dictator cares about human life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* With beauty inside you, you can always create beauty outside! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wisdom is not a destination, wisdom is just a bridge. It takes you from a misty world and takes you to a sunny world where you can see everything clearly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Love at first sight is to fall in love with a closed door without knowing what lies behind it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatest punishment for being in a position that can always see everything occurs when you don’t want to see anything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes a shore almost captures you! Boats come, boats go, but you always stay on the same shore without knowing why! And you know what, do not try to understand why you stay there! Some things must be as they are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When looking at an infinite horizon, you should know that you are also the horizon of that infinite horizon! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

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* Strangely, an ancient ruin warms you while you feel cold looking at a modern building! Why? Because the past had a soul, it had an idealism; it had an aesthetics and a grace! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* New Year is a new morning and a new morning is a new opportunity and a new opportunity is a new path and finally a new path is a new richness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no way that a person who treats others badly when he is unhappy is a good person! A good person is a person who treats others well even when unhappy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The warm beauty of winter is a compensation given to mankind for the freezing cold of winter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A temple does not necessarily have to be a building; a perfect view is also a temple; you go there, you sit and you live the spirituality to the full! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You find high art in the mysterious beauty of nature! In high art, you find high genius! In high genius, you find endless glows! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most beautiful treasures of the morning are for those who wander early in the mornings! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Look at the desert roads! A wind blows, the road closes; another wind blows, the road opens; so is life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When simple is more than enough, you will feel happy more than enough! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A mind that cannot find peace even in the infinite beauty of nature is a truly uneasy mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The old stone bridges have something to tell us: When you trust yourself, people will trust you! If you stand firm, people will come to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only if you capture a perfect view from a perfect angle can you achieve its perfect perfection! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Draw a picture on a wall; now that wall is no longer a wall, it is a living extension of art heaven! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you talk, you talk; when you don’t talk, your face talks, your body talks! In short, whatever you do, you always talk! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To give up a difficult path means to give up the glory and honour that will be achieved by overcoming these difficulties! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No summit is as high as the summit you tried to reach and failed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re not where you’re supposed to be, then you’re definitely in a place where you shouldn’t be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re on the way to the sun, you have no right to complain about the heat! If the place you go or the person you meet is stronger than you, it will rule you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Behind every beautiful thing built by man there is a beautiful idea and behind every beautiful idea there is a beautiful inspiration, and behind every beautiful inspiration there is a magical glance of the artistic mind to the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Talk to the forest because the forest always talks to you. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatest danger for those who constantly try to see the future is that they remain unaware of what happens today! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One of the most mysterious aspects of life is this: Sometimes, no matter which path you take, no matter what changes you make to reach a different point, you always arrive at the same point! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What distinguishes candle from other lights is that it appeals to our soul, not our eyes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wherever you are in life, you have come there either because some doors are not opened or some doors are opened! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You cannot be a good writer by being highly cultured or by being very hardworking person or a good bookworm! The way to become a good writer is to write by flowing like a river, with the mysterious power coming from the depths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The fog is a magician who performs the art of erasing things without actually erasing them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The beauty behind a beauty is hard to see because the eye cannot stop looking at the first beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Art has one purpose: To make a refreshing magical touch to one’s soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A hidden wooden cottage is much safer than a solid fortress standing in an obvious place on the hill! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You will never get to a place you think you’ve already reached! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When it comes to watching the universe, you can do two things: You either start asking hundreds of questions about the universe or you just watch it in silence with great admiration! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Zoos are one of the worst crimes of the humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatest pleasure of this life is to go after a mystery that runs away from you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In love, if you can say things that give the magical air and the beauty of the forest mushrooms, then what you say will definitely fascinate the person you love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You must respect all the ruins you met – these stubborn and mysterious visitors of ancient times – because they are still with us with wisdom-loaded messages from the distant past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Try to understand life, but don’t exaggerate, because those who lose so much time to understand life often shorten their lives seriously! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to be a master of imagination, you must free your mind from all limitations! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We are trying so hard to add a meaning to this meaningless world! And at the end what do we get? We get a funny meaningless world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A positive attitude towards life is the strongest shield against the demoralizing arrows of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Hell must look very beautiful to find customers for itself, and deserts do precisely this! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Reality will be very boring for those who fall in love with the surreal! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* As you climb down the mountain, a disturbing emotion emerges in your soul! This is a sense of emptiness that comes from seeing that climbing to the top is not a great victory that glorifies or raises man! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When looking at an extraordinary landscape, there are no questions, no answers, no desires, no plans, no worries, no past, no present, no future; there is only a deep silence, only a glance! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sun shines most on disciplined and hardworking people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Since mankind lives both heaven and hell fully in this world, it needs neither a beautiful heaven nor a terrible hell! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A person who does not understand your soul can give you only winter! And you too, you can give nothing but winter to the person whose soul you did not understand! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* This whole life passes by trying to fix things, and if there is nothing left to fix, then it means life is over! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are delighted to be in ancient ruins, you are either a curious historian or a romantic person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best way to save the world is to see every plant and every animal you see as the last plant and the last animal in the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Poverty has created a new planet within this planet: A Planet of Misery that all humanity should be ashamed of! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes it is so desirable to go on a journey that it must be set off immediately without setting a destination! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you simplify your life, you will be able to see the life much better because with a simple life you get rid of the obstacles that prevents your horizons! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You either fight heroically against any hostile attitude of life or hide in a dark corner like a coward! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Always give your enemies the following message: Enmity is stupidity! Being an enemy is primitiveness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is a privilege to meet some people; it is a disaster to meet some people; it is shocking to meet some people; but there is a category of people, which is the worst: Meeting them means nothing! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you buy a book at a reasonable price, you buy a new perspective on life, and such a new perspective is priceless because it can open many doors previously closed to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most bizarre things in the universe isn’t weird meteorites, odd comets or strange black holes! The most bizarre things in the universe is the traditions, beliefs and cultures of this world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Music is liveliness and liveliness is music!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You become very happy when you get a flower! But what about the poor flower? How does it feel? It doesn’t feel anything because it is dead, it has been killed for your unethical happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For a better view, you should have a better height! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want more silence than silence, the silence of a cold winter night is exactly what you are looking for! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some people love the twilight time because either they want to see the world vaguely or they want to be seen vaguely by the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you throw out the past or the future from your life, you will still continue to live; the only vital time you have to hold in your hand is today! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A delicate soul is like a soft surface and scratches occur on soft surfaces very easily! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Rural life is heaven for the urban-people, but when it comes to go to this heaven, they prefer to stay in the hell! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You feel really cold when the winter in your soul coincides with the winter of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To get to places far away, you must first reach nearby places! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a foggy mind enters the fog, it doesn’t understand that it enters the fog! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No face is ugly unless the mind is ugly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is a fantasy of everyone to live above the clouds! But everyone should also know that with one dream realised, many other dreams are lost! When living above the clouds, how can you live the beauties of walking under the rain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The forest is more beautiful than a single tree; a foggy forest is more beautiful than the forest! By adding another beauty to one beauty, you can always achieve a higher beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In a country where peace prevails in every corner, everything looks prettier, calmer and wiser! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The mountain that you cannot climb gets higher and higher; the mountain that you have climbed gets lower and lower! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One morning you’ll wake up and realize that you’ve made so many mistakes in your life that now you’ll realize that the only possible way to fix things is a new life to be given again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The mission of elegance is to defeat the ugliness of rudeness with beauty and thus create a more courteous world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A real awareness for you will never start till you start being aware of the fact that you are not aware of many things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When people whose lives have turned into ruins wander through the ruins, we can easily see that life has treated the ruins much better! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Try not to conquer the nature but just love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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MMI QUOTATIONS

MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.

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* The place where you escape to find peace of mind is the place that defines your true soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is always easier to say something that has already been said in a much better way than to say something new that has not been said before! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Fools waste your energy, so when you see a fool,  it’s wise to change your path as if you’ve seen a wild bear in the forest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* If you aim at the summits, you are an ordinary person; if you aim beyond the summits you are an extraordinary person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You are looking for a safe harbor: The safest harbor is a well-functioning elaborative mind, because only such a mind can find the best solutions to the most difficult problems! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how beautiful a view is, it is not real unless you go inside the view! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you haven’t done everything possible to live the life you want to live, you will often visit the Land of Regret! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some of the people who help people in trouble do this not because they are good people, but to forget their unhappiness in the unhappiness of others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No season appeals to the eyes as much as autumn; no season touches the souls as powerfully as autumn and no season invites us to the world of mournful thoughts as intensely as autumn! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Lucky people often don’t know that they are lucky and unlucky people often don’t know what it means to be lucky! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re waiting for the train of your life and not getting on another train, you’re making a big mistake because almost always other trains will take you to that special train!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The man who climbed from the bottom to the top and then fell to the bottom again feels as if he has lived the lives of hundreds of people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everything that defines you is your soul! The words you love, the cars you find beautiful, the rooms you like, the friends you miss, the books you enjoy, the flowers you like, the roads you fell in love, the places you admire, they are all your soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Big dreams are born to exist in the minds of disciplined and tireless people who are ready to make endless efforts to realize them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A man who wants to change the universe is far ahead of a man who wants to change the world, because he is flying with the winds of a much bigger dream!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* With art, we are a lively tree; without art, we’re a dead log! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wars are an ugly game that diabolical governments resort to in order to exploit national feelings and thus stay in power longer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There should be a place where you can take shelter and refresh yourself when you are upset, demoralised or bored, otherwise checkmate; and the game finishes for you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Anywhere you accept as a frontier will be your frontier! Everyone builds his own prison, his own walls! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One day you will sit quietly in a quiet place and think about your past! The avalanche of your past mistakes will come and fall on you! If you are a weak person, you will be crushed under this avalanche; if you are a strong person, you will laugh at your past and continue on your way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An infinite horizon is like a strong current in the sea; it drags you to unknown places before you even notice it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No planet is as magical as our earth in the solar system because earth has millions of planets within: Original ideas! Yes, any orijinal idea is a planet where you can happily breathe and live inside! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Do you want to become a second Shakespeare of world literature, the second Darwin of science, and the second Elvis of music? This is nonsense and at the same time impossible because every human being is unique and you can only be yourself! Every person has to create a different path so that the world becomes richer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world blesses not those who look at him secretly from afar, but those who walk arm in arm with him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can be a blessing for the world or a pain in the ass! You can be a hope for the people or you can be the name of despair for the people! The path you have chosen is the path that determines how you will be remembered in the minds and in the hearts of people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The only thing which is not in the character of the storm is calmness because calmness simply means ‘death’ for the storm! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to write something permanent in your mind, do something crazy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You don’t have to jump down from a cliff to learn some thing from the cliff; just come close to the edge of it! Apply this idea to life too! Respect your existence and don’t get caught up in the madness of trying to experience everything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who run to see the end of the road will miss the road itself when they see that there is nothing at the end of the road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* From a good photo, sun rays impinge on your eyes; water drips into your hands; the smell of grass comes to your nose! A good photo is real like the reality itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Who is a city person? He is a poor being who has forgotten the beauty of the stars! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Not humans, but birds often witness the most beautiful mornings in this world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every clever boat who has deeply understood the realities of this universe knows that when it leaves the shore, it may not be able to return there again! Every departure carries a potential of a forever farewell in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you love the winter, winter goes off warmer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most desolate road is the most perfect road when you want to walk all alone! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Autumn is a visual gift given by nature to raise the morale of human beings who is worried as they enter the dark days of winter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a shady path that goes to the depths of every human being; look for that path in every person you meet in life, because each person’s true self is hidden in his gloomy depths. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sea is not a charity for helping stupid captains! On the contrary, the sea is a tough arena to punish the inadequate captains! And life is also a sea! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The birds, the moon and the clouds have an important mission: To make mankind turn their eyes towards the skies! And so man can leave his own little local world and focus on something bigger, the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only the countries whose libraries are full of people can realize the greatest achievements of human history! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You know why cats love to be by the side of windows? Because they value their freedom very much and they need an escape route in case they perceive a decrease in their freedom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The richest of all people is a little child who is so happy with few simple toys! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The quality of man is revealed by whether he helps others when he is unhappy! Because when happy, everyone can help everyone! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A bread that a poor gives to another poor is a thousand times more valuable than a thousand bread given by a rich to the same poor! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you take the art train, the stations you will get off are very obvious: Thought-station; admiration station; unusualness station; universality-station; ecstasy-station! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When nature looks so philosophical, you know you’re in the autumn! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

*  No matter how narrow or how impassable life’s paths are, with mind-power we can always find or create a passageway to pass through! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Any idiot can kill his enemy with a gun; the hardest is to kill your enemy with love! Love kills her enemy by making the enemy her friend!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest danger to think you’re doing something very important is this: Maybe what you’re doing isn’t important at all! And to think you’re doing something important when you’re doing totally unimportant thing is nothing but a great comedy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Your own life story is not read by the world till you add some exceptional things to the life stories of others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nobody in history has achieved great goals with little effort! As for those who achieve little goals with great efforts, they have always been ridiculed in history! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a man who is unaware that he has lost his way encounters a wiseman who knows all the ways, He will continue to walk without asking the wise man anything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The stars of the night inspire you; and then you write poetry and inspire others; this time others create new things with the inspiration they get from you! You see, thousands of beauty are created with a simple inspiration! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You climb from the misty valley to the top to see the sun; this time the top is covered with fog; you go back to the valley to see the sun! That’s life! Wisdom is to anticipate the moves of life in advance and thus not to run around like crazy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a very important difference between the burdens that life puts on us and the burdens we put on our own lives: We cannot get rid of the former, but we can get rid of the latter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a dangerous road is your routine, safe roads will bore you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Watching endless horizons is a refuge for bored souls. Just like a small piece of salt that has fallen into a large glass melts and becomes a part of the water, bored souls too melt in the endless horizons and transfer their sorrow to the eternity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Imagine that the forests disappear from the earth! Then, who will remember the November without the magnificent autumn trees, who will long for it to come? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Even if a person whose dreams are dead feels himself alive, it is only an illusion because without our dreams we are all dead people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Just like a good restaurant, give everyone who comes to you a peaceful and meaningful atmosphere! Let them feel good with you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No one who has looked to the summit from the valley and feared has reached the top! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A warm house in a cold winter night is another name for paradise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Go after wisdom, not go after wise man because wise man shows only the path, he himself is not the path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The human mind can solve the problem of climate change, but the world is ruled by the mind of politicians, and this low mind always produce problems, let alone solve a problem! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If we can create an eco-friendly civilisation, that would be a great victory for both humanity and nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People need the right path but the right path also needs people because an unused empty road is destined to disappear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a regular life is poisoning you, then you need a chaotic life as an antidote! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Plains and valleys look more beautiful for those who have no hope of the summits! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The mysterious beauty is so much more superior to the beauty without mystery! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can help other lives without neglecting to live your own life, this is a great personal achievement! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A deer’s head does not make a fireplace beautiful, on the contrary it makes it ugly, because no living being deserves to be a dead decor! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you get so angry at life that you leave behind everything that life gave you; and sometimes life is so angry with you that it takes back everything it gave you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a person has the stupidity of learning something bad only by experiencing it, then let him learn it by experiencing it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wisdom is all the things left to you after all the ports you visited in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you look like others, then something very important is missing in you: Originality! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Be inspired by others’ ways, but don’t follow others’ ways; create your own way, follow your own way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* So many gurus have emerged in the world that you must be a guru yourself to choose the right guru! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest problem of a person who has no difficulty in ensuring his own happiness is this: The unhappiness of others! Because it is very difficult to maintain happiness among unhappiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We people are lucky; we can turn our eyes to the universe above when we are tired of looking at the earth below! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For full happiness, make your mind happy, make your body happy! Is it enough? No! Make others happy too! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Imagine the whole world is applauding you! Is this good for you? No! Because if there isn’t even a single person to criticize you, your chance to get rid of your mistakes will only depend on your self-critic! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In the country of a stupid nation, the nation works for the politician’s pocket. In the country of a wise nation, the politician works for the pocket of the nation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A bird that loses its nest in a forest fire does not sit and cry; it starts searching for twigs immediately to make her new nest! When life ruins your order, you too act like this bird, don’t cry, start working instantly for a new order! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most amazing miracle of every New Year is this: In the New Year, great things will always happen to us! Here, the New Year makes us taste this wonderful feeling and this feeling gives us power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most amazing miracle of every New Year is this: In the New Year, as if great things will always happen to us! Here, the New Year makes us taste this wonderful feeling and this feeling gives us power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you live for tomorrow, then you’re a dead man because tomorrow is yet a dead thing, not yet born! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a trick that human beings have used over the ages: Declare a job as impossible – for example, climbing a high place that has never been climbed; and then accomplish the so-called impossible job and finally greet the whole world with great arrogance! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The student asked: Can I walk on dry leaves without making a sound? The master replied: Light can do it, and shadow can do it. Which one are you? The student replied: None! Master replied: Then have fun with the sound of the leaves! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If your mind is at sea, you cannot enjoy the harbor; If your mind is in port, you can’t enjoy the sea! Wherever your mind is, take your body there; If you can’t do that, bring your mind to your body! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Even if you are very happy in the valley, something inside you always desires to leave the valley and climb to the top! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind of oddities make life more interesting, less boring! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everything that happens to you in life prepares you for something else! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is difficult to know a person when he is happy because the real face of a person often appears when he is unhappy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You need a magic in your life to feel alive and adventure is the best magic you need! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Romantic souls seeking real beauties go to the small shops of small towns, not to the big shops of big cities! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only when the situation is totally hopeless will you learn whether you have a talent to create a hope out of nothingness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The shadow of the crowd is also crowded; the shadow of the loneliness is also lonely! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A house in harmony with nature is much more than a house; it is a continuation of the spirit of nature within us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Silence is great because in silence you meet yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are in a place where a big wave hits, you live the hell; If you are far away, you  experience a visual paradise! As long as you stand in the right place in life, you always live beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t be like a candle! Because the candle dies while making others happy! Clever is the one who finds a way to make others happy without sacrificing himself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Warning signs are for the clever people not for the fools because fools live their lives through living the warned things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how modern or new a tram is, it always takes us back to the good old times! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Institutional spiritual life needs you more than you need institutional spiritual life! Why? Because the former cannot live without you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Look at the rising energy of nature in the early morning! No spiritual teacher can give you this amazing energy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A cave has two great things to teach you: Light is sacred; silence is to integrate with eternity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Going down to the valleys is the greatest dream of the mountains’ summits! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The natural beauties that a house sees through the window are more precious than all the beauties in that house! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have a cheerful mind, life is cheerful; if you have a boring mind, life is boring! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Just like cities, memories also have many avenues and some people walk around the same avenue over and over again just like mad people who walk back and forth on the same avenue! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you try to say something perfectly, you go away from perfection; when you say something naturally with a flow from inside, you approach perfection! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All moments deprived of awareness are unlived moments! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Try not to be superior to others, try to be different! Trying to be superior is arrogance; trying to be different is just the desire to make a different contribution to the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes a door opens in front of you; you rejoice, you go in! But then you realize that the door was a trick; it was wrong to go in, and even worse, the door closed and now there is no exit! Welcome to real life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Trying to find a solution to your problem is a magical journey because during this journey you can arrive a beautiful and utterly different problem-free point leaving your original problem and its solution forever aside! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The stars touch you with their light; you touch them with your eyes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Long roads do not have short memories! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In every amazing beauty, you find eternity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Find your mountain, find your hill, find your precipice, find hard passages, find enemies, find all the things that will force you to be stronger and to develop better talents! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Happiness is to get lost in an autumn forest, and not to be found is even a greater happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Since life is a road, New Year is the new part of that road! If you think you were slow or lazy or rude or greedy or stupid in the past year, be fast, be industrious, be kind, be generous, and be clever on the new part of the road of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Support yourself before supporting anyone else, because if you are not strong enough, you cannot support others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Destruction of our Earth – created by billions of years of evolutionary process – with our stupidity of the last few centuries is a candidate to be one of the most tragicomic scenes in the history of this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a person who has no goal to reach sits in a high place and looks at the infinite horizons, he sees only an infinite horizon over there because the goals detail our lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you no longer stare at the sky at nights, it means a very important question is dead in your head: Who are we? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The wisdom of the tram is that if you do your work automatically without thinking about it, then you will save a lot of time for the things you want to think deeply! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the man who knows everything and the man who doesn’t know anything comes next to each other, you will see the latter talking continuously! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

 

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

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* Sometimes a door appears in front of you; You keep trying to open it and get in! However, if you give up the door, the road before you suddenly opens! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wrong path is the right path to gain experience in your search for the right path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Anything that makes you forget the wounds in your heart does a sacred job! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

*  No matter where you go, no matter where you hide, the world sees you from anywhere and from any angle! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can see the little things and the small details around you as big things, you’re enlightened! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who always have summer in their minds never see winter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We aim to create a society of independent minds where each person is the leader of his own and no one follows anyone! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No one can dance better than his own shadow and no shadow can dance better than its own owner! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The river teaches us many things, but its most important teaching is this: Whatever is happening around you, you keep flowing to your own destination following your own way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the beauty created by humans comes together with the beauty created by the nature, all eyes are turned to this beyond-beauty metamorphosis! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every big trip where you talk much less and think much more makes you a superior person than your previous self! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some houses are beautiful because they have a beautiful design; some houses are great because they are built in a great location and some houses are extraordinary because they have both a beautiful design and a wonderful environment! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The direction you don’t look at is the fate you missed! If you look at every direction, you will rule every fate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Knowing what will happen tomorrow  ruins the whole mystery of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In order for a holiday to be a great holiday, it must somehow involve water-related activity, because water is a magician who relaxes our soul and body! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to rule everything, rule the rulers! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If there is no mystery in your own essence, even if you give yourself a mysterious air, you will not look mysterious! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t stay asleep for a long time while driving on a curved road ! And dear friend, be awake because the roads of this world are mostly curved! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t prepare for the summits by wandering through the valleys! The only way to get to the top is to get away from the valleys! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can touch your dreams very powerfully in your mind, sooner or later you will really touch them in the reality world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If every one of us were given a power to get everything we want, the world would be the greatest chaos-zone in this entire universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world has provided us with a miraculous environment for our existence; the only way to repay our debt is to make a great contribution to the world’s existence!

* When darkness emerges, the universe appears in the sky! Remember, darkness has gifts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The success of a great will is the greatest driving force for the success of a weak will! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a focused mind determines where to go, the question of how to get there will not be too important because the focused mind surely finds its way to its destination! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The snake produces poison in its body to poison its enemies! But man is a strange snake; he produces poison in his mind to poison his fellow men! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Civilization does not have to be ugly; civilization can well be civilized! And the only way to create a civilized civilization is to create an environmentally friendly civilization! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A dog’s primary goal is to be happy because the dog does not have the skills to solve its own existence problem; The dog lives and dies because he can’t do something more! But the primary goal for man is not to be happy, because man has the ability to solve his own existence problem! Without solving our existence problem, we cannot add any real meaning to life. Human life is a soap bubble, and our primary purpose is to change this impermanence! Humans have the ability to change happinesses of moments into the permanent and eternal happinesses! And if man lives with only the happiness of moments like a dog and does not solve the problem of existence, then he will be no different than a dog! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a thousand days in one day for an energetic person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You plan something in life; but then something else enters that plan! This is life! A wise art of life is to implement your own original plan in spite of other plans!

* If you want to see what the fog hides in itself, don’t wait for the fog to disperse! Instead of waiting for something to happen in this short life, do something immediately! Enter the fog! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more you fear the precipice, the deeper the precipice will be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For life to teach us something, we must let the life to enter our life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re trapped in a tunnel with many open exits, the tunnel can’t help you! The exit is in your mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sky loves lakes rather than oceans because it finds the opportunity to watch itself in the crystal clear mirrors of the lakes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The silence of the chatterer and the chatter of the silent man scare us because we expect everything behave according to its nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you start living without the need to attract the attention of others, you take an important step towards wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have any doubt about the lifestyle you have chosen, either eliminate your doubt or choose a new lifestyle, never stay in between! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In a simple wooden hut, you can create great universal ideas because the seed of the great ideas often grows and develops in the land of modesty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Great gurus are not great writers, but great writers are great gurus! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t remember your umbrella even when it rains, you’ll never remember it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You said you have a soul, you deceived yourself; you said there was life after death, you deceived yourself; you followed the priest, you followed the imam, you followed the rabbi, you ran after the gurus, you always deceived yourself! You betrayed yourself and humanity for not understanding the truth! And what’s left in your hand in the end? A fake happiness and perishment! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no flag on Earth that is more beautiful than the flag with only the picture of the Earth on it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You want to be the tallest tree in the forest and let all the trees see you easily; but remember that lightnings will easily see you as well! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The meaningful glances  of an animal immediately raises it into a human category in our minds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you are desperately in need of travelling, you will not need any destination! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All forests in the world need to be given the same name, so that people can understand that there is only one forest in the world and that every burning forest is his own forest, no matter where in the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Throughout human history, palaces have taught us this: Those who live in palaces have always exploited those who do not live in the palace! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a road splits into two roads, and you are not sure which way to go, whichever road you take, you will be splitted into two: A part of you will stay on the road you haven’t gone!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You don’t want the sun to set; you don’t want the day to end! But remember that the sun sets differently every day; also, every day is a different day! And life is rich only if life is different every day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Hope lies beyond inaction! When inaction ends, hope rises like the sun! Inertia is the enemy of hope! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can figure out how their minds function, you can defeat anything or anyone! Enter a storm’s mind, then you can defeat it; enter the mind of a dictator, then you can defeat him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What things are waiting for us in the corners of life, the only thing we can be sure is that something is waiting for us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who leave a mark in the history of humanity are often those who continue to walk on the roads that end! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are thinking something while the sun is setting, then you must know this: That sunset is not a magnificient sunset! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Challenge is an art because it must be done with the right power at the right time in the right place, or the challenge becomes nothing but another name for defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the mountain despises the valley, the valley reminds him of the clouds and the Moon! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Make a walk in such a way that everyone learns many things from your each step! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you overvalue the uncommon, you spoil the uncommon and it begins to think of itself as something very precious! Don’t forget, a three-leaf clover is as valuable as the five-leaf-clover! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are the only one who’s rowing in the boat, you have no right to complain about which way you are heading! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You don’t have to go to another planet to see the aliens, just look at the people in the interesting dresses of the seventies! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Something similar to us always create a kind of fear in us, because we are often afraid of seeing our true self! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have decided to hide yourself from the world, choose a place where people will never think of searching for you there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A coward afraid of light is more coward than a coward afraid of darkness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Unless we humans respect and protect the homes of all non-human living beings, we will never deserve to live in the houses we have built by occupying their living spaces! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Paths that address to the mind is superior to the paths that touch the heart! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Man loads the world; woman takes the world’s load! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is very hard to be nobody because everyone you know and even people you don’t know try to make you somebody! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Without wisdom, life is superior to you; with wisdom, you are superior to life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t learn something from the world you know, so target the worlds you don’t know to learn something new! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If everyone in nature were too talented not to be hunted by others, everyone would starve! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The person who despises a drop of water is an utter ignorant who doesn’t know that billions of tiny creatures in this world can live with one water drop for days! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You may find the appearance of an animal very funny; but you can be sure that he finds your appearance much more funny! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is zero chance of being a good person without doing good for others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is only one way not to waste your life, and it is to attain wisdom at a young age! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The person who knows which way the storm will follow is never afraid of the storm! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Go where you find peace of mind because there is no place for you which is more supreme and more precious than that place. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We are lucky because we have existed; we are unlucky because our existence is temporary; but we are still lucky because we have the ability to make the impermanent one permanent! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everytime you enter the melancholic tunnel of unrequited love, you will get out of that tunnel with a less cheerful heart but with a more mature mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* How can you knock the door of a doorless house? The answer is very simple: Do not tire your mind with meaningless questions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most beautiful sunsets occur when the clouds try to prevent the sun from shining! Don’t forget that as you go through difficult times, the obstacles that appear lasting suddenly disappear and the sun comes out! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you go to the top to see better, but the clouds appear and you can’t see anything anymore! Life is the difference between your own plans and the plans of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Be quiet, be motionless, sleep, think! No matter what you do, the person who looks carefully at you will see you talking because the body always speaks with its own posture! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A meaningful look only comes out of a meaningful mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world is a skyscraper! Don’t always stay on the same floor! Go upstairs, go downstairs; visit the lives of other tenants! Visit eagles; visit mushrooms! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every candle deserves great respect because they light us by burning their bodies and destroying themselves! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have to sail in a very stormy weather, take the word ‘sinking’ out of your dictionary! Success is achieved first in the mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some roads steal your time; some roads steal your comfort and some roads steal your heart! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Noone can attain infinite wisdom with finite horizons! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Watch your beliefs! Because they can turn the beautiful world-paradise  into a complete hell of nonsense! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Eventually, winter comes;  eventually, spring comes; eventually, summer comes and eventually autumn comes! If they don’t show themselves, then there’s a problem! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You want to be loved; you want to be applauded; you want to be treated kindly; you want to be respected; you want to be heard by others! May be all these wants are the real sources of your unhappiness! Try to want less; try to see how beautiful to merely exist! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The word precipice does not exist in the dictionary of birds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Politics is the art of increasing the wealth of the nation, not the politician’s own wealth! Those who do the opposite are called thieves, not politicians! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some rich people think that they can handle climate change by using their money: Well, but if the world sinks, you won’t have the chance to leave the ship with a lifeboat! Where will you go? To the space, stupid rich? Let’s remember that people don’t have a colony in the cosmos yet! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you become silent to listen to the sounds of the forest, if the forest becomes silent too, then you can be sure that the forest too became silent to listen to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It’s as if all the beauties of the world were put there like an ornament to make us forget death! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Our desire to touch the untouchable things is a good proof of our naughtiness! Yes, human-being is an impish creature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All you need in life is two-step action: Dream and then make it happen! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You may think that some mysterious powers are helping you, but in fact those powers are your own power which mobilizes universe to help yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how beautiful the summit is, you will return to the valley! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When everything around you is very serious, give yourself a chance to breathe and relax by acting unseriously! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* How can you understand something is really beautiful? Very simple: When that thing comes out of your life, you start desperately waiting for it to come back! And autumn’s beauty is such a beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There are two kinds of nations: Those rolling around in the mud and those sailing into the space!

* Empty streets are a blessing for you because an empty street whips your thoughts and makes you question your life! He who wants to dive into his own depths, let him wander in the empty streets! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is always a good-timing in every great photo! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The secret of every rise, every improvement, every success, every progress is to be able to look at yourself from a distance and observe yourself from afar! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can’t find an oasis, create your own oasis! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who cannot even reach a fixed target will never reach a moving target! And the real honor lies in achieving a target which is moving and even continuously moving away from you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you need to hear unbelievable things and see unbelievable things to expand the limits of your mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sun at sunset and the sun at sunrise are not the same sun because the latter is now older! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.

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* No great dream has ever come to the feet of his dreamer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The little world you created is bigger than the big world because it is the world you really want! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When we find another earth even more beautiful than our earth, we may not want to move there because we  have so many memories here! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Macro world has to love the micro world because its life depends on it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to be an expert in attracting others, choose a cat as your teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All the beauties of this world seem to exist mysteriously to convince you that life is worth living, despite every tragedy happening every single second! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The storms are honest friends: They remind us of how dangerous this universe is and invite us to be vigilant and serious! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the danger will come from anywhere, then your eyes must look everywhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more natural a house is, the more joy it gives those who live in the house! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One of the greatest comedies of this life is that a person thinks that he is doing a very important job while doing unimportant work! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Jumping down the cliff is a keen sense every person who comes to the edge of the cliff thinks of! The bottom of the abyss often hypnotizes the people who look at it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you believe you are a bullet-proof person, to convince the people you must let them shoot you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sea loves to visit the shores; we love to visit the sea! We want things we don’t have! Men want eagle wings; eagles want human feet! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is wrong to say that this morning is beautiful because every morning is beautiful! Why? Because number of your mornings are limited; you won’t have millions of mornings! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The way to beautify your soul is to live the beauties of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Be quiet if you want to talk to silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t invite anyone to your path! Just walk in your own path; if your path is shining, you will soon see many people walking together with you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Whatever faith you have, always be relaxed, always feel yourself free! And never forget this: Your beliefs are not important than you, you are more important than your beliefs! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Life is the most real fable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Bridges symbolize change and flexibility! They show us this simple philosophy: When you are on one side, you can easily move to the other side! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All the roads you regret for not going to the end represent the alternative lives you have missed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Once upon a time the nature welcomed us; now he says goodbye to us, to save his own life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Eliminate the great ideas of the past, then you get a much smaller world because great worlds are created by the great ideas ! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People are often punished by the realization of their dreams! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you do something scary, you become ready for something even more scary! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We often say that life is short! But no! Life is long, we’re short! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every bird has a style and each style has its own fate, just as it is in humans! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The message of the heavens is not for those looking to the ground, but for those looking to the heavens! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Escape from complicated life! Take refuge in simple life! You will find three treasures there: Healthy body, peaceful mind and a life away from ambitious fools! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When humanity wins its battle against the forests, this victory will be humanity’s greatest defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you get away from the crowds, you get close to thinking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The mountain is calm when there is a storm; the mountain is calm when there is fog; the mountain is calm when there is sun! Calmness is the wisdom of the mountains! Those who have lived everything are always calm! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the world asks you to walk, don’t listen, just sit! When the world asks you to sit, don’t listen, just walk! The captain of your own ship is you, not the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can run to your destination or you can walk to your destination, or you can fly to your destination and even you can crawl to your destination! The only thing you need to pay attention is to head towards your target! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* They say religion has made a great contribution to art, but in fact art has made a great contribution to religion. Art has created a holy atmosphere with its superior genius! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When respecting the statue of a venerable person, don’t forget to respect the artist too who made that statue! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Cowards cannot have an adventure, because adventure requires staying calm when things get roughy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A person with a universal mind who lives in a remote village knows the world much better than a person with a local mind who lives in a big city! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes the sky gets tired of being in the sky and it descends to the earth! And if you have a camera at that moment, the king of photos comes on the stage! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The gifts of nature are endless; the hazards of nature are endless! Mankind always swims in a lake furnished with terrible dangers and wonderful gifts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Yes, every living being on earth is precious, but humans are more precious than any other living being in the sense that they have the capacity to develop some means to protect the world from a cosmic disaster! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A man who can’t find anything to inspire himself in this world is the stupidest man! Look around, the moonlight, the sunset, the gleams on the sea, everything is an inspiration for us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to live a peaceful life, either bring the forest to your house or your house to the forest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have decided to get lost, find a place worth getting lost! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sunrise gives you energy and sunset gives you wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you are not afraid of a life-threatening danger, the danger almost takes step backward and gives you a permisson to be closer to the danger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Love needs no techniques or tactics; it just needs a sincere heart! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world was a clean place until we polluted it! Now, the world will remain dirty until we clean it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Either you enter the interesting gates and experience interesting things or you stand behind the gates and sit cowardly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We wouldn’t like it, if the sunrise came right after the sunset! Love grows with longing; the longer the night, the greater our love for the sunrise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The future of humanity is closely related to how much we understand the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Ancient monuments are full of wisdom, for they have been filled with what they have seen and heard for hundreds of years! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Look carefully at the goat sitting on the edge of the cliff: Everything that shows you the peace of being fearless is a great teacher for you! That goat is a teacher for you, respect him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have seen the beauty of simplicity somewhere, you should know that there is the touch of genius there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Any negative situation you encounter carries the potential to take you to a positive situation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If your soul is sad or your mind is gloomy, the narrow dark streets of the night seem like medicine to you because the rivers flow into the sea; and we flow into the things whose fate look like our fate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Mankind does not need monasteries to live, but monasteries need mankind to live! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Going out to the garden is to go on a holiday; when you travel amongst the flowers, your body touches heaven and your mind tastes the secrets of ataraxia! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Not only too much wine makes you drunk, but too much beauty too! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the lake sees the ocean, it will want big waves! If the ocean sees the lake, it will want calm days that lasts for years! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A house with many windows witnesses many stories! Witnessing many stories means a lot of wisdom! A house with many windows is a wise house! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sunset is a moment where all emotions are experienced: Melancholy, amazement, intoxication, casuistry, admiration, love, sadness… ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The universe is the largest, the thickest and the most necessary book! Either we read this book down to the finest detail and consolidate our position in the universe, or we fall upside down like a climber who doesn’t take enough precautions against the dangers of the mountain!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can’t win the wisdom of the forest without walking in the forest! Walk with awareness in the streets of life! Wisdom is the reward for walking inside everything with awareness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how weak they may seem, the innocent have the power to defeat even the most cruel hearts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have your own light, even if no light falls on you, people will see you even in the darkest night! Do not borrow talents from others; produce and use your own talents! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To see the truth, make a habit of looking at everything from a distance and above all, look at yourself from a distance too see the truth about yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Do not try to pull people to your path! All you have to do is to travel on your own path with great enthusiasm and faith! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best thing about a beautiful morning is that if we don’t have the strength or determination to solve our problems that morning, then we get that power and determination from that beautiful morning! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An underdeveloped country that has not lost its humanity is much more developed than a developed country that has lost its humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Anywhere that fits your soul perfectly is a real paradise for you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Pay attention to what you say because the universe sometimes makes a surprise for you and actualises your desires to test whether you really wanted what you desired! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some ideas are like terrible storms; like a nightmare, they haunt a country or an epoch  and destroy everything there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Give a nice answer to those who want you to look in one direction: Look in all directions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how perfect the road and the car are, they can’t hide the flaws of a bad driver! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some roads, some stairs, some problems may seem to you infinite! Take a step into that infinity;  you will see that infinity will suddenly shrink! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You are not regarded as lost until you realize you’re lost ! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to look at the same place and see different things, look at the same place from different perspectives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A man defying an extinct volcano is only declaring his cowardice! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* With a great concentration, you shall become successful in eliminating the possibility of failure! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The house on a tiny island can only take refuge in one place when there is a big storm at sea: The beautiful memories of the past when the sea was calm! And people do the same thing when they become helpless! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Here is a very simple law of our world: We help nature; and nature helps us! Very simple! We protect nature; and nature protects us! Nice friendship! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Curiosity is one of the pedals of the evolution bike! Curious human or curious animal climb up the stairs of evolution faster! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who build their homes in impossible places are great pioneers who pave the way to other impossible places in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re waiting for a sign from the skies to become a great photographer, the extraordinary images that suddenly appear before you are exactly those signs you are looking for! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sunset is the most spiritual moment where human race meets the extraordinary spirit of the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You sow wheat once, you feed the world once! You sow ideas once, you feed the world a thousand times! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You know what is fate? Fate is to walk on a steady path like a deaf and dumb rock,  without looking left or right, without seeing the opportunities around it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The ocean is not a big lake; the lake is not a small ocean! Ocean is ocean, lake is lake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All your life, you will always encounter two roads: One is easy, other one is difficult! One is flat, other one is steep!  For glory and honor and for real success, choose the hard road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The reflection is jealous of the reflected and the reflected is jealous of the reflection! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The rulers of the oppressive governments do not know the wonderful flowers that bloom in the deserts despite the most difficult conditions! Goodness, beauty, hope flourish even in the land of Satan! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When even shadows need shadows to cool off, you must know that the weather is incredibly hot! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more you resist to leave your comfort zone, the less colourful and the less adventerous life you will have! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most beautiful part of an adventurous road is that your mind is not in the past or in the future, but it is exactly in this moment! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Someone else’s big success seems little to you! Your own little success seems big to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If ignorant people criticize you and attack you, then you can be sure that your path is the right path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A moment in life for every human being will surely come and that moment it will be said this: Everything was just an empty dream! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* How lucky our world is to have the Moon! How lucky we humans are to have the Moon! And finally how lucky our Moon is to have a view of the deep blue Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Look at both the top and bottom of the world to get to know the world well; wander on the surface, but also dive deep! The best way to get to know something is to look at both the visible and the invisible parts of it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On the way to your goal, you can always stop, rest, go the opposite way for a while; but after a reasonable time you must set off again towards your goal! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nothing is as beautiful as the reality itself, even a beautiful dream; but at the same time nothing is as terrible as the reality itself, even a terrible nightmare! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The only duty of some roads is to prepare you for the tough and complex roads you will encounter in the future and we call those roads teacher-roads! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how real they are, oases will always look surreal! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is always an eternal mystery around the lonely souls! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the twilights arise in our minds, we begin to wander in the twilights outside! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have an ambition far beyond your talents, then it means you have put a big wing on your little plane! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the road is over, the cowards return to their homes; but the brave continue to move from where the road ends! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Living through his works, living through his ideas, living in photographs, living in street names, living in memories, these are all empty things! If you’re not dead, you’re alive, and that’s the only way to be alive! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What draws us from the low valleys to the high mountains is that noble stance of the summits! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some people close their eyes to the horizons; some people sit and watch the horizons; some visit the horizons and some incredible people go beyond the horizons! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The beautiful colourful stones of the beaches must never forget that they shine because of the waves! Let us always honor the things that turn us into something admirable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are doing some good things for the benefit of mankind or for the benefit of animals and plants, then no matter what your age or race or religion is you are definitely an important and respectful person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To see the world as it is, hide yourself from the world, because when you show yourself to the world, the world will behave differently! And do the same thing to know the people as they are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the Moon wants to show its beauty to the world, it must make a deal with the wind to disperse the clouds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The wisdom of the sun is not in producing light and heat, but in sharing them with everyone and everything! Wisdom that is not shared means conceit, and if there is conceit there is no wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the world is yellow, then don’t talk with your yellow ideas, but talk with your red ideas, talk with your blue ideas, talk with your black ideas, or nobody will notice you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We can change an ugly reality in a real way or in a virtual way! And because it is much easier, people prefer the virtual path and thus the real ugliness continues to remain real! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Remember, even in your darkest days, a light is always trying to reach you! All you have to do is open your eyes wide and find that light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some spiritual paths are so powerful that the incredible lights they produce or the strong darknesses they create erase all other paths from people’s minds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best defense industry is to build good relationships with your neighbors! The best missile, the best tank, the best atomic bomb is to be good friends with other countries! Enmity and its measures belong to the world of stupidity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.

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* If you are blessed with a soul that loves every living being, whether it be human, animal or plant, then you are truly blessed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Life is a river; every time you wait for something, that river continues to flow and you miss many other opportunities! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t know which way to go in the middle of a bridge, you better enjoy the bridge! Sometimes the solution comes only when you give up the future and enjoy the present! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The eagle is wise because he looks everywhere, not somewhere. If you want to raise wise people, raise people who look everywhere, not somewhere! Let them know all the ideas, let them travel on all roads! Let them walk in the light and in the dark! Above all, let them make a habit of doubting what they have been taught! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is only one definition of happiness for hungry people: Eat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Shoes can’t walk on their own! They therefore are grateful for the feet! Be grateful for everything that brings you life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a government has come to a point not afraid of the people, the people must remind the government that they should be afraid of the people! The people who do not respond on the streets to the arrogance of governments are nothing but herds of coward sheep that have approved fascism! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Learn the art of living in the desert from a camel; learn the art of jumping from a kangaroo! The person who does the job best is also the best teacher in that job! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some roads push you to look for new roads, some roads make you forget all the other roads entirely! Always try to travel on the latter roads! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You don’t see the whole picture! You don’t know the whole story! But you keep speaking as if you see the whole picture, you keep talking as if you know the whole story! Go away, go! See the whole picture, know the whole story, and then come back and speak! Let only the people who see the whole speak! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some people find calmness only by the side of danger! Why? Because the thought of danger is sometimes more worrying than danger itself!  You are stormy till you meet the danger! But once you meet it, fear disappears and calmness appears! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Universe likes seriousness in serious matters; if you are not serious in serious matters, universe will remind you in a very strong way why you have to be serious in serious matters! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can be the most talented, the most intelligent or the most successful man in the world, but if you’re not a modest person, then you can never get rid of being a very repulsive person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If a shadow begins to think of itself as light, what should we say to him? Don’t say anything, just bring him to the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the storm starts talking, no ocean can sleep! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Known is boring; unknown is tempting! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Because everyone is incomplete, everybody is on a quest by hoping that their missing parts will be completed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A cottage in the middle of nowhere is a courage in the middle of nowhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A good adventure is like a good literature. They both descend to the depths of our souls and they become unforgettable all our lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All the beauty of the future is not knowing what comes out from the corner! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Palaces are fancy toys built by people with inferiority complex in an effort to be superior to others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are too much interested in the story of others, then your own story will be orphaned! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more a nation tolerates an arrogant government, the more arrogant the government will be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* The cleverest is person who learns the life before the life teaches him! In short, he is the person who walks in front of the life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Your every extraordinary success immediately becomes an extraordinary motivation for others! He who raises himself also raises others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have decided to be nobody, let nobody knows about this, otherwise they will force you to be somebody! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You’re looking for a goal for yourself? If you can’t find it, keep walking, the goal will find you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no path, no man or no book in the world that can teach you nothing! The point is, what will they teach you? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Concentration is the other name of the success! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatest happiness of life is that you have a way that you can say ‘this is my way’! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re sleeping while you’re traveling, it means you’re not traveling! Because traveling means new things must pass before your eyes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Either you work or you rot! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People often look at the same direction! But success comes from people looking in different directions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven’t read the book with your soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Anxiety about the future creates more wrinkles on the human face than the sun! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* As soon as fear leaves you, the joy of life comes to visit you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can attract others’ attention with your style; you can teach with your style; you can give hope to others with your style; you can start a revolution with your style; style is a great power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The invention of the concept of ‘the other world’ was undoubtedly the greatest treason for humanity! The so called ‘other world’ has created a fake-hope! And with fake-hope, you can get only a fake illusion which is nothing more than a mirage! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is impossible for you to be only a watcher because there will be always something watching you – an insect or a person – and this makes you both a watcher and watched! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A politician who doesn’t write his own speeches himself is nothing but a stupid puppet who speaks in the name of someone else! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes we feel only one thing about a road: We must travel on that road at all costs! We know deep in our heart that that path is our path of dreams! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It is not enough to understand that the Earth is our home; we must understand that the Earth is the only home we have! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You cannot obtain wisdom by walking only in your own garden because wisdom requires knowing beyond your frontiers! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Stay away from the storms because you can hear your soul only when you are in the calmness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The bigger the window, the happier the soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

“How will an immortal person spend his infinite life without getting bored? Well, he can simply try to find something which doesn’t exist!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan Words of Wisdom, Aphorisms, Wise Sayings, Quotations 

* The ruins often amaze us because we are so arrogant that it is difficult for us to accept the talents of the people of the past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To look is easy, to see is difficult! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A lost soul will eventually find another lost soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Very few people will push you from behind for you to go forward; most people will pull you from behind to prevent you from going forward! Be strong enough to pull the people forward who pull you backward! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People spend so much time on the personal development books that they can’t find time for personal development! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Humanity needs three major revolutions: Firstly, the revolution of the elimination of arms production all over the world. Secondly, the revolution of abandonment of all religions while keeping only a small number of spiritual grounds, such as the concept of God or the spirit of the universe. And thirdly, the revolution of killing death by a powerful mobilization of science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no message valid for all times! Each message has a life span, sometimes a hundred years sometimes five thousand years, but ultimately the mission of each message ends! When you give people a message, you should know that even if your message is as bright as a sun, one day, like the sun, it will fade away! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What is Enlightenment? Enlightenment is to be vigilant when everyone is sleeping; it is to see when everyone is blind; to hear when everyone is deaf! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You need many teachers, not one teacher; you need many gurus, not one guru; you need many books not one book! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The train you have been waiting all your life may not stop at your station; the best thing to survive such an emotional disaster is to give a chance to the next train which will stop at your station! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In the hearts captivated by innocence, the eternal peace of a quiet lake is experienced! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Visiting the fields is more sacred than visiting the temples because our existence is based on fields and not on temples! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The moment you think that you are not a strong person, you become the weakest of the weak! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You must never despise the port you were born because no matter how small or how bad it is, it is the place you have started sailing to the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Let your ideas die, let your art die, let your fame die, let all these disappear, but you live! You are more important than your thoughts, more important than your art and your fame, you are more important than all your works! Never change life with anything else! If necessary, give up everything, everything but life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For a curious person, what a wonderful feeling is to get lost and what a horrible feeling to get lost for a coward! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The only way to fully know the soul of a mountain is to live it’s all seasons and it’s all heights and the same thing is valid for people as well! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the colours speak, close your mouth tight and open your eyes wide! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A victory won without struggle is an honourless victory; a defeat happened despite struggle is an honourable defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Not only the ships sink but minds also sink, most especially the minds who does not know the secrets of being happy with all kinds of ordinariness in life!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We always change our paths when we walk on the streets; but in spiritual life, we often get stuck in one path! Walk to the other paths as well – as you do in real life – and enrich your world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Cats! What have we learned from these naughty boys of our world? They have taught us that we are important and that we must make ourselves happy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The fog is a chest, a magical chest! What wonders are hidden in it, the only way to see them is to dive into the fog! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The eyes of the sad souls become friends with shadows, not with lights! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The flower blooming in a tree is not only the child of the roots or the branches or the leaves of that tree, but also the common child of the soil, the rain, the sun and the bees! The father and the mother of every living being is never one father or never one mother but actually the whole universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t be fooled by the appearance of the doors! You can meet extraordinary beauties behind a shabby door and a wonderful door can be opened to a dump! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is a great danger in trying to punish the people you love with your absence: They may not feel as punished but rather relieved! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more you spend your time in the ordinary streets, the more extraordinary things you will learn! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No one needs to write an autobiography, because everyone’s life is already hidden in their glances! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We don’t care whether you are Christian or Muslim or Jew or Hindu; all we care is the goodness inside you because only the goodness inside you can make you a good human! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You cannot have the right to cross a bridge without respecting it! You cannot have the right to use the things without respecting them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes an invisible hand touches your life; you plan to travel to the east but you go to the west; you plan to meet someone but you meet someone else; you plan to fly in the sky but you crawl on the ground! And this invisible hand is what makes this life mystical! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can’t stay alone with yourself, you will lose yourself! Keep yourself in yourself by creating a time for yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Protest against injustices belongs only to honourable and courageous people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t sit, stand up! Do something; you can do wrong, but no problem, do it! At least you will have a story to tell others! If you don’t do something, you will be storyless! And what is life? Life is nothing but a book of stories we write! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more the future occupies your mind, the less the present time will occupy your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are tired, take shelter in silence! If you want to find the truth, take shelter in silence! If you’re tired of people, if you missed yourself, if you just want to watch the world or if you want to heal your soul, take shelter in silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The sponge has no water; it cannot give water without first taking water! To attain wisdom, put your sponge in different lakes, different oceans, different rivers, put it under the rain, let it absorb as much different waters as possible and then squeeze the sponge so that others can get this enriched water! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

 * Every dawn is born with its own unique hope! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatest blessing in life is that a person is aware of and appreciates the blessings that he has in his life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can’t be a hope for yourself, to whom you can be a hope for? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In battle, the enemy takes you prisoner; and in peace, love and music!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When things look very strange, you get an opportunity to use your head! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you are above the clouds, you go beyond the foolishness of the World and find peace! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Without writers, we could never dive into the depths of other lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We’re all very busy with somethings, mostly with the most trivial things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Characters who love loneliness walk on lonely roads! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wildlife in the world can only be protected by the love of compassionate hearts in the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A sheep who teaches something to the shepherd is no more a sheep but a teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are walking in silence without disturbing the silence then you really love the silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The opportunities you missed, the streets you didn’t walk, the people you didn’t talk and the dreams you didn’t dream will be the fate of others, not yours! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Extraordinary paths ‘may’ create extraordinary people, but extraordinary people definitely creates extraordinary paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a stupid man realizes that he is a stupid man, only then he gets the chance to be a clever man, not before! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Define yourself or others will define you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Before every important decision, spend a long time with yourself; the wisdom of silence will help you to find the right path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the purpose of your life is crystal clear in your mind, you will be able to continue your life journey very strongly even when everything else is very blurry! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Any writing that earns love from people’s hearts and earns respect from people’s minds is a good writing indeed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you love thinking, you automatically become a silent person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wind is the most skilled hairdresser! Find a windy weather and let your hair be shaped creatively! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The idiots who say they’re having a great day at the zoo must know that the animals there are just having a terrible time every day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* On  a cold winter day, the window of a warm house knows both the paradise inside and the hell outside! Any path knowing both the angel and the devil is the path of wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everybody is looking for happiness, as if happiness is hidden somewhere! But you must realise that happiness is everywhere, not hidden in a secret corner of life! You are a bee and everywhere is full of flowers; do not try to find a particular flower; concentrate on every flower; try to extract happiness from ever simple thing! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In successful photography, you don’t just look alive at the photo, but the photo also looks alive at you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The ports also have dreams: To go to the other ports! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All the untold words of this world could change this world if they were told, because words always have the potential to change the people they touch, and the world changes when people change! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you can run away from a problem, but that doesn’t make you a strong person; that doesn’t give you honor! So, what to do? Stop running! Face your problem and fight your problem! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When fog invades the plains, everything disappears; everything but fog! When love invades the minds, everything disappears; everything but love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When it comes to the beauty of nature, time stops, the space becomes silent and the soul falls asleep while awake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The wise man is the one who can look at everything both with his own eyes and from the eyes of everything else! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Never let the world sweep you like a useless rubbish! If the world wants to sweep you, you respond in the same way: Sweep the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To find the street you can fall in love, you may wander in countless streets, but it worths to wander! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes you see a wonderful view when travelling on the train; but the train doesn’t stop and you lose the view! And the same thing happens on the journey of life : To catch the thing you like, you must slow down and move towards it otherwise you lose it!» ~ Mehmet Murat ildan Words of Wisdom, Aphorisms, Wise Sayings, Quotations

* Examine your life very carefully; look carefully at the obstacles in your path; you’ll see that most of the time you’re the one who put them there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When everything is going well in your life, there appears a strange feeling inside you: This can’t be true! Why? Because life does not carry happiness for a long time! Certainly a wind blows soon and the rough waves begin in the peaceful stagnant sea! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes some of our dreams don’t come true! And after a long time, we realize that it was not a punishment of the universe but on the contrary it was its great blessing for us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Not the world but the world you have created within the world determines the degree of your happiness or unhappiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Sometimes you want to leave everything behind you! You especially do this to find yourself when you think you lost yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re not saying ‘earth is an incredible place, life is an extraordinary thing’ when you look at the earth, then your awareness is very weak! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Touching a flower is touching life; touching the sun is touching life; touching the skin, touching the sand, all of this means touching life! No touch, no life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An egg somewhere in the world waits to come out of the shell to discover this world! With every new born being, the world gets a new chance to change its own fate in a positive or negative way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You get the best photos, the best literature, the best poems, the best art while working for your own pleasure with your own inner peace! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The silence of the forest is different; the silence of the desert is different; the silence of the cave is different! Silences in different places are not the same  silences because silence is not only the absence of the sounds but also it is the presence of different feelings in the absence of the sounds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The melody you continuously hear in your ears when in fact there is no melody outside is the melody you fell in love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Possibility of everything is the greatest beauty of the future! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

*  If a politician and a puppy participate the same election, you can be sure that the puppy will win the election because people will find it much more sincere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you meet a shallow person, you will see both his body and his soul! When you meet a deep person, you will see only his body! To see his soul, go down to the depths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* İnner peace is not something to be found but something to be created! By enjoying with the simple things of life, you can easily create a peaceful mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When two innocents exchange their touches, the aureola of love around them takes a spectacular form! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Mother Nature is the mother of all mothers, so let’s congratulate her too on Mothers Day today! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What do thinkers do? They think! What do lovers do? They love! Shoeshiner? They polish the shoes ! What about politicians? What do they do ? They decrease the mental and ethical average of human race! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You always have two worlds: The one you are in right now and the one beyond your world! The only way to live a full life is to discover the latter world continuously! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you return back to the road that you have beautiful memories from the past, the road starts talking to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have found a quiet bench in a quiet park and sat down, be sure you had a very profitable day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Most people are trying their best to ruin their own lives and the tragicomic thing is that they don’t know about this! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

*  Before you think that you are making great sacrifices on something, look at what sacrifices are making others on the same issues! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.

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* We people are the great champions to make the possible things impossible by undermining our power with our negative thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* There are streets to enjoy, there are streets to wander aimlessly and also there are streets to contemplate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Behind every great success, there lie mirrors! He who has the habit of systematically looking in the mirrors to see his faults will reach there, to the Land of Great Success! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Without knowing the horrible sufferings of others, you can never perceive what beautiful life you are living! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are playing football, you can’t expect your shadow to play something else! Your trace is shaped in accordance with what you do! When you do something stupid, the legacy you left behind will also be something stupid! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A nation which accepts to live a third-class life is just a third-class nation! If a nation wants to be called honourable nation, it must use the option to refuse any kind of policy which is against human dignity! No refuse, no honour! If you don’t refuse a bad government, you deserve it all the way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Hey, you mortal! You are nothing but a ghost; only immortality can make your real! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The idea that each one of us is born to accomplish a special task in this life is nothing but a colourful fantasy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

*  Here is a beautiful game you can play: Go to a pretty street you have never been to; don’t look for anything and let the things find you! Never forget that those who look for nothing will always look more attractive! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You must know that some people need only a little light to get out of their darkness! So when seeing such people, never spare your light, just a little bit will be enough! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Here is a short history of mankind: Some make mistakes – purposely or unintentionally – and then others pay for it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you live your life slowly, you live only half life; if you live your life fast, you live five lives or ten lives or fifteen lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There will be always some extraordinary people in our lives with whom we are proud to be living in the same époque with them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Fed up with life? Then you need to watch the sunset; it will make you love the life again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* With the help of our imagination, we have succeeded to create a new universe within this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the road ahead is complicated, you will make it even more complicated when you panic! The calmer you are, the simpler the world will be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There are thousands of different paths in a city but there are millions of different paths in a library! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* The most comfortable shoes from the point of view of our feet are the most fashionable shoes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When losing your path becomes the only meaningful path for you, lose your path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A house turn into a home only when you put your soul in it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We are lucky that mountains exist; we are lucky that we have such beautiful sanctuaries on earth where we can enjoy utter silence and heavenly rise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We do not know whether this universe is infinite, but we know very well that the imagination power of art is infinite! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best way to solve your problems is to create a silent time where you are all alone with yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No temple is a better temple than nature; no heaven is a better heaven than nature; no dream is a better dream than nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A street full of trees must always be preferred to a street made of gold! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To deserve living on earth primarily requires loving the earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everybody’s life can be a movie but most of such movies will be boring! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A good shepherd is not afraid of the storm for himself, but for the herd! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There are millions of homeless people in the world because humanity does not have a proper conscience! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the silence visits you, make no noise because silence is the homeland of the great thoughts! If you don’t touch the silence, it will touch you with wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The longest bridge is the one where you don’t know which side to turn your face for the exit! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Autumn is said to be the month of sadness, but in fact it is the end of autumn which is sad one, because a splendid beauty will be over! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Happy is the person who lost his old boring path but found an adventurous new path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In life some moments will arrive where no-one’s help can help you! In such moments, only your own help to yourself will take you out of darkness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Eyes are the most effective tools for silently asking help! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Time will always tell us which path is right and which path is wrong; but on earth there are some special people who can truthfully tell us which path is right long before the time itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every teacher was once a student, so respect each student because it is always possible for an ordinary seed to become a respected gigantic tree! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you do everything you can to destroy yourself, but surprisingly you get out of this situation by becoming even stronger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We all need a new year to motivate ourselves that something new will start, something hopeful will flourish! New Year is always a great need for all of us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everything – good things and bad things altogether – is temporary and the best philosophy in life is to try to find a way to make all the good things perpetual! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to meet the mysterious people, you must first discover the mysterious paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you turn your back to the life, don’t expect the life to reappear in front of you; what is left at the back remains at the back! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* According to your mind you may consider yourself as real but may be you are just an unreachable dream in someone else’s mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Lost people are lucky people because there are no roads to some wonderful places, only those who are lost can find such places! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When watching a high mountain, wise man knows that no mountain is higher or colder or more unpredictable or foggier or more magnificent or more dangerous than the human mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We miss the old times where nature was neater, where people were gentler, where fruits tastier, words more trustable, hearts more real, and where people’s looks were more meaningful! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The easiest way to do yourself a favour is to take yourself to nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No matter how spectacular the valleys are, the mountains will always attract us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Autumn! The greatest show of all times! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Fog is not mysterious, Fog is the mystery itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the reality makes you unhappy, make yourself happy with the surreal! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You fool, what better motivation are you looking for in the morning than the incredible motivation of the morning sunrise? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you keep your morale high, you’ll keep everything high! And to keep your morale high, try to benefit from nature’s energy! And to benefit from nature’s energy, make the nature as your favourite port! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* He who has no dreams, let him go to a beautiful forest to have many! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you can behave like the Sun, giving light to everyone, to every direction, to everything and providing warmth to every corner, to every moment of time, to every far distance, then you will be called as the Son of Sun! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Summit of a mountain is not the upper end of that mountain because every mountain has a soul higher than his body! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When two enemies become friends, this becomes a story of reason; when two friends become enemies, this becomes a story of stupidity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Days of the future are coming towards us like crazy waves! Let us welcome every such wave as precious blessings from the existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you are leaving someone, leave like the sun leaves the earth with a magnificent elegance! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* As long as the sun does not set in your mind, darkness will be nothing but a weak shadow in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* That exact moment when you think you will fail is the most precise moment to cast away this negative thought! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* After all, if you have added some lively colours to the world, you will be remembered well by the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If the reflection is beautiful, we can be sure that the reflected is beautiful! If someone’s character is beautiful, we can be sure that his mind is beautiful! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Storms don’t need you to get stronger, but you need storms to get stronger in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People often look for a secret passageway to happiness. But the paths of happiness are obvious: To be happy, before everything else you must love yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You may think that silence can teach you only silence! But no! Silence will teach you to listen to the universe and when you listen to the universe, everything will be taught to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In summer, you remember yourself; in autumn, you forget yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You miss the early morning today? Wait for tomorrow and don’t miss this time! Foggy mornings, sunny mornings, chilly mornings, rainy mornings! All mornings represent the beginnings and all beginnings represent hope! Don’t miss the hope! Don’t miss the beginnings of the journeys! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Here is a precious message for the New Year from the old year: Be an octopus in the New Year and hold the life tightly with six arms! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The only way for existence to survive is to create different forms of existence because same things will have same talents and different things will have different talents! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have decided to be a master, you must continue to be a student! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you see birds flying from the sunset towards you, you will find it hard to convince yourself that they are not angels from heaven! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A palace cannot make you rich but a cottage in the woods can! We become rich only through simpleness and modestness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Is it possible to further improve something excellent? Yes, it is possible and an uber-excellent photo of an excellent view is proof for this! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Changing ourselves is always easier than changing others! And when we change ourselves, we push the button for the change of others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No castle can protect you, no castle but the Castle of Reason! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are unable to stay in any port on earth, we can conclude that travelling itself is your port! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Will the rich continue to be rich in the New Year? Will the poor continue to be poor in the New Year? Then for god’s sake how on earth the New Year will be called as new? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What is death for a lake? Death for a lake is not to see the mountains on the horizon; not to see the reflections of the trees; not to hear the wings of the birds; not to feel the chilly air in the mornings; not to see the moonlight at nights! Death for a man is the same! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A winter message from the river: Never surrender! Life can try to stop you, but somehow find a way to flow! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You cannot stop the time, but you can leave the time! And to do this, you must visit the timeless beauty of an autumn forest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Similar minds learn nothing from each other! To improve your mind, choose a friend who has a very different mind than yours! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No need to search for the sun, just leave your cave, he will find you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have the high spirit of the high mountains, even the greatest powers of the outer world will respect and admire you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most amazing thing about the winter is that even a frozen world may be perceived as a heaven! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We can endure the storms only if we believe that the sun will soon come out of the clouds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You find your government stupid and primitive, ugly and clumsy but on the other hand you love your country very much and you find your country very beautiful? Ok then, you have one of the most common feelings in this world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We have met so many interesting faces in our lives, but only a few interesting souls! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Dogs bite sometimes, people bite at all times, with their hurtful words! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The beginning of every New Year is always the best time to give another chance to your neglected talents! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You may find yourself in the middle of a storm. You must never have the word ‘surrender’ in your dictionary! Fight back is the only word you need! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to teach something to water, you must be first a river, a lake, an ocean; you must be rain and flood, ice and hail, rime and snow! You must be all of them! But not enough! You must be something more, only then you can teach something to water! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We all flee from somethings and the ports we anchored are mostly not the ports we wished to be, but they are the ports we have been dragged on while we’re fleeing from the things we fear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* New Year is a spring time! Open up like a flower! Let the world see your energy! And when the world see your energy and enthusiasm, the previously locked doors will be opened to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* There is no greater tragedy than the tragedy of hating yourself because you will always have to live with that tragedy unless you start finding a way to love yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Happy times are the times where you must not comment about your happiness; just live your happiness without contemplating about it! When you think, the journey stops. So, walk, my friend! Run, dear friend! Jump, laugh, dance! Without interfering the flow, just continue your journey of happiness! Never question your happiness when you are happy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When your target is too far away from you, you can make the distance shorter by ignoring the distance! When you ignore the difficulties, you obtain a great power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Yes, life is short, the roads are very difficult, but our love for life is greater than all these negativities! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People who don’t share the same horizons with you will stay in your life only for a while! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Beauty without elegance is a half beauty; elegance without beauty is still a full beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best way not to feel ourselves like an ant in this ‘giant’ universe is to have a ‘giant’ mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No one can ever find himself without making a lonely journey with himself to find himself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The New Year is not a time to think about what you have lost or what you could have achieved but it is a time to plan and realise what you can gain and what you can achieve! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can never be happy by stealing someone else’s happiness; if you do this, sooner or later you will be nothing but an unhappy thief! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The wind has no right to complain about the waves! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* He who gives you many dreams is a great master, and the foggy weather is such a master! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to rule the darkness, you must first rule the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t despise the world under the clouds when you rise above the clouds, then it means you deserved to rise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most beautiful places suit best to the most free souls! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every shine which destroys the darkness of others is a holy shine! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Your mind is your light. If your mind is cloudy, how can you illuminate your life? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Calm and quiet towns are the real paradises we are looking for in this chaotic universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You are lucky if you have a tough target because this will keep your mind lively and when your mind is lively your body will be lively too! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you lose your contact with nature, you lose your contact with your soul! And if you want a proof for this, just have a look at the faces of the city-people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We are not against the ending of things; we are only against the ending of good things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have started getting bored of your own words, this is a very good sign because you can now say new things which can excite you and others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Darkness admires the light; light admires what it illuminates! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Here is an unchanging truth valid for all the New Year’s: The more you believe in luck, the less successful you will be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A nation has to love and protect the lakes, rivers, forests, birds, bears, flowers and seas of the geography they live on! If he does not love them and he destroys them, then that nation must get out of that geography and leave its place to a more nature-sensitive moral nation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If no one has called you back when you left a place, then your decision to leave that place was precisely true! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All dictators must understand that all the nightmares they have created for innocent people will one day come back for the dictator himself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You can learn perfect justice from nature! When the wind blows, it blows for everyone and for everything: For the birds, for the sailboats, for the wind roses, for the kites… ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you wander in an empty silent street, you wander within the mind of wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the winter speaks loud, everyone and everything becomes silent! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To feel the life, don’t stand still; to feel the universe, don’t move! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only a city lost among the trees is a real city! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Fool the fools and thus hope that they may get wiser by being fooled! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Let us do something incredible this New Year: Let us try to see the world from the window of other cultures! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* You can never live a full life unless you fearlessly attack your fears! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game! – Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Find yourself a purpose. Find a road to achieve this purpose. And finally, never take your eyes off that road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t wait for the life to treat you well; just leave no choice to life than treating you well! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* If everyone is standing up to bow to an authority, you sit down! If everyone sits to bow to an authority, you stand up! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Many books mean many teachers; many teachers mean many paths and many paths mean many wisdom and many wisdom mean many lives! Yes, with wisdom you live not one life but many lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A castle can never be a home because home is born out of love not of fear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Don’t expect an energy from the heavens when your life-energy is exhausted! Everything is in you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* The desire to have an eternal life is the greatest inspiration we get from an eternal road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everyone can leave someone, but not everyone can leave someone with dignity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you open the door of wisdom, all other doors will be opened! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What a splendid pleasure is to say good morning to the morning sun! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Light is a great opportunity for the darkness to realize that there exists a different world than the world of darkness! You can attain wisdom only when you discover the worlds beyond your own world! For the darkness to be wise, it must know the light; for the light to be wise, it must know the darkness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you feel that you are rotting in a port, nothing can make you happy other than leaving that port and sailing to new ports! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t find any interesting things in a path, leave that path! Because you will feel alive only when you are surrounded by the interesting things. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* One of the best strategies in life is to forget the distant destination sometimes and enjoy the beauties of the moment! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The beauty of art is the art of beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you have a great self-confidence in your own style, you become a style for others too! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To find something you dreamed of, searching is not enough! You must make the universe sense how badly you want your dream! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you sincerely want to be discovered by the world, you will be discovered by the world even if you are a shepherd in a remote mountain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Do not try to impose your limits to others because everyone has different talents and every talent’s limits are different! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Farewell – though it sounds very tragic – is sometimes the best exit from the hell of unhappiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When we see a marvellous religious structure, some of us immediately think of God, some of us think of talented workers who built that structure, and some of us think that the money that can be given to the homeless is wasted here! Everyone thinks differently and that is the reason why life is rich! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Politicians can be stupid, and most of them are so; they can be devilish and dishonest, and most of them are so; they can be charlatan, and most of them are so, but as long as the people who vote for them are not stupid or devilish or dishonest or charlatan, they can never come to the power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Hidden wisdom is not wisdom! Because wisdom should shine in a way everyone can see! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The infinity of the universe is a great blessing for human beings, because human beings’ desire to discover is also infinite! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you’re unhappy today and you’re going to be happy twenty years later, would you go if there’s a miracle that will take you to that happy time in the future? Don’t go, because every single second – whether you are happy or unhappy – is infinitely valuable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You never get tired of traveling on the path you love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The burdens in our minds is always heavier than the burdens on our shoulders! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a dark narrow street suddenly gets a beautiful light, everything in that street turns into a beautiful dream! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you cross a bridge, you take a break from this world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If we can give to urban people the peasant’s love of nature and their deep understanding on the matter of nature’s importance, the salvation of our Earth will be easier! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We expect aliens to contact with us! If they do contact, what will be the best thing we can offer to them? Of course our human values, what else can it be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You must question everything you learned because you should know that no matter what country you live in, you will often be taught stupid things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you only have the ability to see what’s hidden, you can’t see the obvious! If you only have the ability to see the obvious, you can’t see what’s hidden! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Those who lead people do not have the right to make mistakes! If they do, then they don’t have the right to lead! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Tramway is more close to human soul than the subway because it touches to the passengers’ souls with a sweet sunshine!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Some brave people look for impossible paths to travel to prove that they are possible for travelling! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The great thing about unknowingly waiting in the wrong place is to meet something much better than what you were waiting for in your original waiting place! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* As you walk, you must make the universe understand that you are extremely determined to reach your destination no matter how many obstacles intercept your path! When you do this, obstacles start disappearing one by one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* With the experience gained in loneliness; you can open many doors; with the experience gained in the crowds, you can open many doors and finally with the experience you have gained in both the loneliness and the crowd, you can open every door! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Concentration is a genius; it has the power to solve any kind of problems. It works with the same principle a magnifier uses when creating fire: Bring all your powers to a point and destroy your problem! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes our shadow looks more alike to us than ourselves! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Until a tragedy touches you, you will never be able to fully understand what life really is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Your stance vis-à-vis life determines how successful or how happy you will be in life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nothing is more valuable than a tired smile to greet people despite being in the middle of a hard work! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The deeper you feel the pain of others, the more human you are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Praying is a mathematical proof of our despair in the face of the universe’s power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You will look bigger than you already are when you’re confident that you can really do a very hard job! And this is the magic of self-trust! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a nation chooses an oppressive and reactionary government in election, it does not only betray its own country, but also betray humanity because only free minds in a free country can make a good contribution to humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We touch the Sun through the light, we touch the heaven through the music! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t know the art of disappearance, learn it because you will need it every time you get bored of the society you are living in! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When lost, it is a great relief to see that everyone is lost as well! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Whoever is showing you the right path, he or she deserves to be called as the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Cats do not try to be funny; they just behave as themselves which are funny by birth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nature must remind itself of city people otherwise the city people continue to drown in their virtual life, unaware of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you don’t do what you love, you die slowly and sometimes even you die fast! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Boxing is a disgrace. You can make money by hitting others to death, but at the same time you lose your human dignity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Interesting is the enemy of the non-interesting! When these two come together, no one will notice the latter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Interesting is the enemy of the uninteresting! When these two come together, no one will notice the latter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Working requires being in the present time! So, if you want to be in the present, work! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everything you do gives a clue about yourself! The clothes you wear, the books you read, the cars you drive, the songs you listen, the streets you love, everything you do is you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To shine like the Sun, use the power of lively colours! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every time you discover the beauties of this world, you are reborn! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you haven’t found anything useful in the words of others, turn your eyes to the unspoken words in the depths of your own soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Great revolutions can be done only by those who know very well the great revolutionaries of the past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you live in harmony with nature, both nature and you win! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you know where you are going, you just have to choose the road to your destination! If you don’t know where you are going, you either don’t travel or you just travel on any random road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* We add more soul to this universe with our art! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Universe hears us not when we say something stupid but only when we say something intelligent! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Our thoughts of today might be proven wrong for tomorrow! Always be ready to accept that you can be mistaken! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* When a big ship and a small boat come together, you will see that the latter is happier than the former because it has much less problems! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The biggest goal of every nation must be to create individuals with independent and versatile minds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You know, even when we leave a place, we leave our memories there and they will represent us in our absence! So, in reality, we will always continue to be in every place we depart! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A virus can change the fate of the world; power has nothing to do with being tiny or giant! Power is something related to the power hidden within you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* People who are fond of their freedom cannot walk in the narrow streets for a long time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are blessed with a mind which never accepts not reaching the target, then reaching your target will just be a matter of time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* The most precious smile is the smile we see in the people in misery! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Kids always find a way to have fun! This is the best art for the adults to learn from the kids! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* All the paths of this universe are ready to be your fate! You see, you are very rich in the matter of having different fates! Use this blessing very well, choose a good fate for yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you come so close to your target, but suddenly an obstacle appears and you can’t reach it! This becomes a tragedy for the weak, but a great motivation to continue for the strong! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nobody is a king! Nobody is a queen! Nobody is a prince! Nobody is a princess! Nobody is a duke! Nobody is a duchess! These ridiculous titles are nothing but an insult to human dignity! Those bearing such titles must be rejected anywhere and anytime by the honourable people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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MMI QUOTATIONS

MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES

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Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.

This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.

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* The viewer watching the view is also being watched by the view! So every viewer is also a view and every view, a viewer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every day we chose our fate again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If dogs are governing a country, what can you hear every day other than horrible barking noises? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To discover the depth, leave the surface and to discover the surface, leave the depth! You shall meet wisdom only when you know both the surface and the depth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* By behaving elegantly, you inspire others to behave elegantly; by behaving rude, you invite others to behave rude! You change others when you change yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every second of every minute or every minute of every hour or every hour of every day carries the potential of bringing you either sadness or happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* An infinite path is just another path; its only difference from other paths is that an infinite path arrives nowhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No man is good enough from whom we don’t learn anything negative and no man is bad enough from whom we don’t learn anything positive! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The real weather is not the weather outside but the weather inside your mind!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Accept the defeat only for a while, not forever! And ‘for a while’ will give you enough time to strike back with greater experience! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Wind also needs wind because everything and everybody needs a friend like himself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The beginning is the best time to think about the end! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When a stupid government is elected in a democratic country, the best thing about this is that you learn the number of stupid people in that country! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The greatest power of extraordinary is to provoke extraordinary thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To remember the nature, spend a day with a shepherd; to remember yourself, spend a day with nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Dogs carry both the mind of the children and the mind of the mature people! They like having fun very much but they can also be very serious! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you are living in heaven, invite people to your heaven; if you are living in hell, warn people to stay out of your hell! People need your heaven, not your hell! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you walk on earth, you must know that one miracle walks on another miracle! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What we have is often more important than what we will have simply because what we have is real! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Life is meaningful; death is meaningless and religion’s greatest betrayal to the humanity is that it gave a meaning to death, it wrongly made the death as meaningful! Declaring an ultimate ‘end’ as a hopeful ‘exit’ to somewhere is the biggest crime of the religion! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You are trying to stay dry when it rains; but only when you get wet, you will know that no one can ever obtain wisdom without melting inside the reality, without being on intimate terms with the truth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* As long as you are stronger than the burden you carry, you will remain standing! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* They may say that dangerous roads are not for the cowards; I say if you are a coward, choose a dangerous road because even one single coward person is a great loss for humanity and the only way he learns to be brave is to travel on the dangerous roads! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you deprive yourself of night’s mystery, you will devoid of universe’s mystery too! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What use cities have for us? Their greatest use is to make us to realise the beauties of the rural life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* We must support nature because in this universe we are supported only by the nature! This is a matter of gratefulness for us all! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Never be a coward person; but if necessary you can pretend to be coward! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* No life is more real than the life full of adventure! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Innocence has invisible hands to touch the hearts directly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Everyone needs fun, especially the devout because the devout often limits his life with some irrational boring rules! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you travel with a wise man, in addition to your physical direction, you travel to every direction! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The more we solve our problems by ourselves, the more we become invincible! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only through reading various books and gaining a variety of knowledge, our intellect can find a path to develop itself properly!  ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A dog owner might be the master of his dog, but the dog is also a master, a master of friendship! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Only peace can save the world and only love can create a liveable earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* For some people life is beautiful only when they are having a beautiful dream in their sleeps! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Because most people live either in the past or in the future, it is not correct to say that the current world population is 7.6 billion! World is full of ghosts because if your mind is not in the present time, your turn into a ghost, you become just an image! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* People are often daydreamers which is why when you see something strange on your way, you must thank to it because it liberates you from the world of dreams by waking you up! Welcome to the world of reality, welcome to this very moment we are in! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you have to turn back and follow your own footprints to find the right path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To understand the people who often talk about the meaninglessness of life, walk amongst the ruins! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Knowing only the valleys is half wisdom; knowing only the hills is half wisdom; for full wisdom, know both the valleys and the hills! Walk down and walk up! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Visit the bottom, visit the top! At the bottom, you meet ugliness; at the top, you meet beauty! Ugly world teaches you to be cautious; beautiful world teaches you to be full of hope! To survive in this universe, you need to be both cautious and full of hope! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you are sad today, remember your happy-past to survive emotionally today! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You want to change yourself? Find a good book; open its door and enter! Once you enter it, you will never be the same person when you exit! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Doubt in the mind means thorn in the mind; thorn in the mind means absence of peace in the mind! The solution for the peace of mind is simple: Seek for the truth at any cost and get rid of that thorn! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Music builds a wall around us against anything that can upset us and simultaneously it builds a bridge for us to cross to the land of happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every ocean wave is a pirate; it attacks the land and it tries to drag the land into the ocean! Life is nothing but a struggle between the looter and the looted! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The world is full of footprints. If you think that the greatest question is which footprint to follow, then you are wrong, because the greatest question is how to create your own beautiful footprints! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The art of the good art is to reach the beyond of the beyond! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The real life is not before you; the real life is not behind you; the real life, dear friend is where you are because where you are belongs to now, to this very moment and only this moment is real! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What are you? Spring or summer? Winter or autumn? None or all? Whatever you are, always be mild! Are you winter, then be a mild winter! Summer? Be a mild summer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* In a way this whole life is a tragedy but let us not pay too much attention to it otherwise life will be even more unbearable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The path becomes dangerous not when the path becomes dangerous but when you lose your faith in your abilities to overcome any danger on your way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When the sun is setting your shadow become much more popular than yourself because with the help of sunset your shadow become a great artist, creating the beautiful art of mystery! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you trust yourself much, you can change your life easily just like you can change the places of the feathers with a simple blow! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every sunset is a journey, a journey to remember the memories of the past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If your only target is to lose your path and reach a silent place, let me give you a bad news: You will fail to reach your target because you will always meet people who also lost their paths just like you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Nations who respect the Mother Nature deserve all kinds of respect! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Between two extraordinarily high dangers, the wise man choses the one he can at least fight against! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Sometimes you make a very small move and then suddenly a giant door opens and a new exciting path appears before you and thus you understand how something such small carries a potential to create such big magic! Now you know that small is big! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* What is hotter than the magma? A sincere smile! What is colder than the ice? A ruthless face! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If your mind is always busy with the far places, you will then one day necessarily find yourself at the far places! Mind is a future creator! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* With high awareness, everything you see is your teacher; with low awareness, nothing is your teacher because for things to teach you something, you must first be aware of their existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The only way to be a master is to know the previous masters! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The student asked: What should I be, master? River, ocean, lake or mountain or what? The master replied: Be unique! There are already many rivers, many oceans, many lakes; be something different because the world needs diversity not uniformity; it needs something nonesuch with incomparable talents! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Feeling poor? Want to get richer? Find a place where you can watch the sunset and enrich yourself with the magic of matchless beauty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Your failure is a great teacher for you and it can also be a great teacher for others! Thus, when you fail, the experiences you gained and your invaluable indirect help to others must be your greatest consolation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Inspire others with your talents; make them feel that they also can do what you do! Push people to pass over their frontiers! Let the beauty of your talents make people conquer their fears on trying the so-called impossible things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When there is nothing left to learn from the winter, move on to the spring! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A striking colour is just another way of saying I am here! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Shepherds also need shepherds simply because everyone needs to be guided, may be not always but surely one day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The most interesting feeling when watching an ocean is this: It seems like something will come from the distant horizon but actually nothing comes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Do not criticize those who leave the Sun and run towards the fogs! May be they just need to disappear to get rid of the burdens of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When heart is broken, eyes look empty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* The best thing about feeling yourself tiny is that you start wishing to be big! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you enter a known path, path shapes you! When you create a new path, you shape the path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* You gain more honour when you solve your problems by yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It always seems like the universe behaves reluctant to intercept those who determinedly travel to their destinations! It is as if the universe favours the decisive people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* To reach the distant places, you must know when to rest and how long to rest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Every fool’s greatest success is nothing but to dare to pretend to be clever because this trick works in some people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* When you look at a strange animal, that animal also thinks that a strange animal is looking at it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan 

* Some people just watches the impassable valleys from afar and some others find ways through the valleys and make them passable! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Try to imagine its good old days whenever you see a ruin and try to do the same whenever you see an old person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Being brave is not always an option; sometimes life leaves you only one option: Courage! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* It matters not whether the life is foggy or not as long as your mind’s vision is clear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* If you want to teach the waves to be calm, you must teach the sun to be calm because the sun creates the wind by heating the earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* A romantic person will know from the bottom of his heart that no source of light can ever replace the mysterious beauty of a candle! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

* Many people turn back on the road of life just because they mistakenly think that the road ends! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

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