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Have you forgotten to have a beautiful breakfast in a countryside village? Then, you have forgotten the life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just when you needed the sun most, an uninvited cloud may come and cover your sun! Welcome to life, my friend! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A great idea is already an action! It is so powerful that it needs no time to turn into an action. It becomes action the day it was born! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even the giant lead balls are not as heavy as the two sad eyes! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Eliminate your doubts because doors mysteriously love to welcome the minds without doubts and open themselves! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don't worry; even if you can't find it, a new hope will come and find you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stay away from 'it-can't-be-done-people' because they are often mistaken! All you need is to have 'it-can-be-done-people' around you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind's purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the field is very thirsty, the dark shadow of a cloud becomes the brightest light for the field! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
How many millions of times the sentence 'Life is short' has been repeated in the human history? But nevertheless we all live as if we have millions of years! Oh, how silly! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Choose a summit; make a plan to reach there! If you think you can't make it, choose a new summit, make another plan. Or give up the summits, make new plans, find lower targets! In short, be 'flexible' in life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Roads never end, only your ability to continue the road may end! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A lonely tree in the desert shares the same fate with the wise man amongst the ignorant! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Shadow is an intelligent artist; it creates its works in places where there are already great beauties! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Two things can take you to the Moon: A space shuttle or a sweet love! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are seven billion people living on Earth and countless other creatures and they all have billions of dreams, trillions of dreams or sextillions or octillions or even centillions of dreams! Earth is an ocean of dreams! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Many trains arrive at your station; treat them good whether they stay or leave! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The theatre is a machine of transformations: everything is transformed into another thing; a bald man has thick hair on his head; a man with strong legs gains a limp and a sharp-eyed person becomes blind; an actor who is an atheist immediately turns into the most pious priest on earth! ~ -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you standing behind the life like a man who is standing behind the window of his house? Open the window or break the window; use the door or break the door, break the walls, break anything between you and the life! Integrate with the life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Unknown is not unknown for the unknown! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The cleverest is the one who thinks that he too can well be wrong in any matter whatsoever! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update your belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don't be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you think what happened to you is the end of the world, just hold your head up and look around you, you will see that the world is there, ready to give you new things! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anything easy teaches you nothing! To learn something, have some difficulties! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let the summer passes quickly and let the winter comes slowly and so we may have longer autumn, The Golden Kingdom! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In a foggy morning, sunshine coming through the trees looks so divine that we seriously think it is the hand of the very divinity itself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do you know where you are going? Do you know what you are going to do? Do you know what you are going to say? Sometimes you better know nothing and flow freely just like a river, not knowing where to go, not knowing what to do, not knowing what to say! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't see new places by staying in the port! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don't let them to rust! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Travelling has a special scent: The scent of excitement! To smell this scent, visit the airports or the train stations or the harbours! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking; the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Masks cannot change the real faces! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the way to truth, you can never see the priest, the imam or the pious! They are lost; they wander on the dark roads of ignorance! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When everything is calm, start thinking about your problems! When the storm begins, you will not find time! Tranquillity is a fertile soil where you can plant and reap the solutions! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Going down is not that bad if you have the power to rise again from the bottom of anywhere! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Circus is an absolute disgrace of the humanity! Real clowns are those who support and maintain the circuses! Honourable men want a simple thing: Along with freedom for men, freedom for Animals too! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You don't need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beautiful roads must be walked; beautiful lakes must be swam; beautiful mountains must be climbed! Beautiful realities must not just be watched, they must be lived! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
What a great joy is to contemplate the whole day in a silent place! And even a greater joy is to see those contemplated thoughts starting their journey in the neural pathways of the world mind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You don't walk with your feet; you walk with your courage! No courage, no walking! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No ornament can make a person look beautiful if the person has a bad heart! A good heart is the finest ornament, the best makeup, the best cloth, the best jewel, the best lipstick and the best earring! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can always close your eyes to the truth and you can be sure that the truth will in no way take this into consideration! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is foggy; always try to see what lies behind the fog! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Earth can happily live without us, but we can no way live without earth! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The storms in our lives can best be handled through a sound thinking, a calm stance and a high spirits! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are honest, you are in the minority; if you are clever, you are in the minority; if you do not believe in any religious craps, you are in the minority! If you are not in the herd, you are in the minority! What a glorious privilege to be in this kind of minorities! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be very successful, climbing the stairs will not be enough; you must climb the icy stairs as well! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you have the ability for resurrection, you can then ridicule the death! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mankind is focused on earth; he is mostly interested in stupid things like wars or ideological absurdities. What he has to do is to concentrate on the universe, because the universe is a cosmic novel that he must read fully, that he must understand fully and that in the end he must rewrite it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great distance is a small distance for the great mind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe; it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you; keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are bad at heart, no polish can make you shine! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some people's heads are like their hats; it appears that just like hanging their hats they hang their heads somewhere and walk without them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stop thinking for a while, then you will start thinking better; stop walking for a while, then you will start walking better! Apply the break and stop, then you shall move better! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stupid king sees himself as a giant, wise man sees himself as a dwarf, because stupid king's universe is his little golden throne and wise man's golden throne is this whole universe! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
However little you may be, you can always be a giant by helping others! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A locked big door always kneels down in front of its little key! Every giant has a weak side! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every sunset is a pilgrimage to the sunrise. Every time you miss the sunset, you miss the beautiful beginning of the holy journey! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is outside the doors; keep the door open so that life can flow into you or you can flow into the life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are happy in the station, then the station becomes your train! In other words, if you are happy where you are, it means that you are already travelling! Happiness is a great journey! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the time came to move forward, don't even think about to look at back for even a second! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nothing is beautiful by itself; things are beautiful with other things. Water is beautiful with autumn leafs, with a bird or with a reflection of the clouds! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Look at the people in the very old photographs! They are gone forever but they still can give us messages with their eyes, they still can touch our hearts with their looks and they still can give us courage with their standing upright! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side! ~ -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the fall of the madness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Meaning is also a colour and that's why there are many colours in the black and white photos! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Lighten your life with a simple life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother's weak shoulders which carry three children! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Who needs a castle? Surely not a courageous man! Who needs a guard? Surely not a brave man! Who needs a gun? Surely not a strong man! Cowards need castles, they need guards and guns, simply because they are weak and chicken hearted! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anyone with hope always have a beautiful looking face! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Today, in the May Day, find a worker and shake his hand with gratitude! Without workers, no civilisation could be built! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn't know how to swim finds himself at its bottom! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The place you look at for the salvation must be the science, not the skies! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes the sky looks so beautiful and at the same time earth also looks so beautiful and finally we look so beautiful as well! By just looking at the nature you become the nature itself! Look at the beautiful full moon, you become a beautiful full moon! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your windows are closed, your doors are closed! Open your windows, open your doors! Let the air and sunshine enter inside, let the ideas flow into you, let the thoughts flock into your mind! Take, so that you can give! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Meditation is mind's vacation! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Deer must be in the forest not in the zoo; monkey must be in the forest, not in the zoo; bear must be in the forest, not in the zoo! Animal prisons must be abolished! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Curtains always hide something, either the good or the bad! Their job is to hide! If you see a curtain covering up an evil, tear it down and throw it away! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everything sooner or later gets tired! A stormy sea gets tired and becomes a calm sea; a calm sea too gets tired and becomes a stormy sea! Everything sooner or later gets tired! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You go to a place for a visit and deep in your heart you think that this place can be your own home and Zurich is such a place! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
However some things may look queer to you, remember that the world is a beautiful rainbow with many colours! No colours, no rainbow! No rainbow, no beauty! Long live the queerness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If there is a nice road to your destination, you are lucky; if there isn't any, then you are even luckier because you will have the chance to be a road-creator! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
As long as death exists, man will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can never feel the real power of the mountains until you start climbing their summits! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every powerful storm will help us to make a stronger shelter! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To rise by using the power of others is nothing but a great fall! Rise with your own power, with your own efforts! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every person and everything can change the destiny of every other person and every other thing, in a good or in a bad way! We are all destiny makers; everything is a destiny maker! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Storms give you a chance to surpass yourself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You need new roads to discover new places! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Make changes in your life; don't wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the doors and all the roads are closed for the cowards! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I recognize only the Holy Pilgrimage of Science to the Land of Truths! All other pilgrimages are nothing but touristic trips! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are faster than the storm, the storm can never catch you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We keep saying that we humans are all in the same boat. This is only physically true, but not mentally! For instance Stephen Hawking lives mentally on the space! Not everyman mentally lives on this planet! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every day there is a war inside your mind: A war between you and yourself! One side of you may defeat the other side of you! But you must know that your winning side might fail in the real world! Always be ready to give a chance immediately to your losing side, to your defeated idea! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tragedies of this world behave like the storms of the vast oceans! While you are inside this storm, let your mind stand upright like a lighthouse! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In autumn, don't go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Losing something might be a blessing; gaining something might be a curse! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If tomorrow all the bridges disappear in the world, then we can learn perfectly how very useful they were! Losing something is an excellent teacher! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You may be lonely in St. Valentine's Day, but you must know that love is like an air, it is everywhere! You shall find it in any day and anywhere! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
With solidarity, you will be more talented and handier, you will be taller and stronger, faster and wiser! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are roads known by everyone and there are roads known by no one! Choose the second, the mysterious one where many glories are hidden! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Make plans at night and the dawn is the best time to start implementing these plans! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don't forget that the boat and the water are in love with each other; you should never let them on their own; lo and behold, they have made an agreement with the wind and gone off on their honeymoon! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Being patient will continue to remain something ridiculous as long as tomorrows continue to be something no more than a hypothesis! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you unhappy? Ok. Being unhappy is a part of life; no big deal! Continue your life because neither unhappiness nor happiness drop anchor in your life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You know why the International Worker's Day is important? Look around you, everything you see, every building, every school, every hospital, every road was built by the workers, by their elbow grease! And that's why it is important! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every disaster gives a warning before it comes; little or big, there is always a warning! Warnings are the flowers of the existence for you to take. Take them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everything is a combined signature of other things! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it! ~ -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our true appearance is our mind's appearance; whatever our mind's visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes you have no right to be tired! You have to work till you reach the glory! Sometimes you must refuse to repose; you must reach the target that you wish to reach just like an arrow never stopping here and there! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your worst enemy can be your best teacher! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes stop walking, look back at your life, detect your errors, and make new plans for the future where there exists no place for these errors! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Paths which have been opened before will take you to places which have been discovered before! Boring! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sunset is a moment where we can wait for all day long to witness it! And not only for one day, but we can wait for all the days of all the years! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A street where there are no children playing is a dead street! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds ... Lonely trees are not lonely! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the donkeys I knew had small ears! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let us hope that some natural paradises on Earth remain totally lost and not to be found till men fully grasp the endless value of the beauty! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even animals know how stupid the wars are, but men, know not yet! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't find the truth by looking at only one direction! Let your mind look every direction! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even the most complicated and the most profound message can be given in a simplest way! Be like a light beam entering into a dark sanctuary: Be clear, be pure, and be simple! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The magical way the wintertime warms you up is through its frozen beauties! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
What a hungry fox constantly dreams of is a chicken! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
World history showed us many times that in any country whenever a dog ascended the throne of kingdom, it did nothing but to bark aloud and bite the people! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every graveyard gives this very simple message: The nonexistence shore exists! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A country which is governed by the religious rules cannot be called as a country, but just a big open prison! Where freedom of expression doesn't exist, where freedom is just a dream, over there nothing exists, nothing but the utter ugliness of a fascist oppression! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Take your tent and go for the camping! You are dying in the cities! Thousands of stars, hundreds of birds, tens of flowers are waiting for you to heal you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every long travel changes man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The loyal dogs of a dictator are much more dangerous than the dictator himself because a dictator can bite you only through his supporters. Without his dogs, he is nothing! More's the pity, the world history is full of such loyal biters! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For every man, there is a way to happiness in every point of his life! The door to happiness is always open; there is no such a thing to miss the entry! All points are entry points to happiness! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Intelligence is the airport; will-power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't make a high jump without high spirits! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A lovely little wooden cottage in the depths of a forest is the most beautiful palace a king or any man can ever have! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Imperialism means raping other nations; imperialist means rapist! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tiredness turns any place into your own bed! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The message snow gives us is very valuable: The environment you live in can suddenly change! Are you ready for this? Let us be thankful to the snow for this spectacular warning! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Yes, nature has two faces: The pretty one and the ugly one, the disasters! Love the first face and be prepared for the second one! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you don't speak the right things, then hush! If you don't hush, then speak the right things! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A giant that became the giant through unethical ways is undoubtedly the smallest dwarf ever! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Creating light is a wiz; sharing that light is witty and protecting that light is a great honour! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you find a fork on your way when you are in need of a spoon, take it to give someone who is in need of a fork! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anyway, two men hugging each other is against nature. A ram should not hug another ram, and a he-goat should not hug another he-goat! Let a he-dog embrace a she-dog, and let a female cattle hug a bull, but a stallion should not embrace another stallion, and a cock should not reach for another cock! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Things can be very complicated; make them simple in your mind and they will be simple in real life as well! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are in love with your job, you never get tired, you never want to stop! You work and work and work ... you continue flapping with an eternal joy like a bird flying over the sea and never wanting to land! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason's coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your burden of life becomes much heavier when there is no one around you to appreciate how heavy the burden you carry! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Look at the places where no one looks at; and so you can see the things no one sees! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you stop being very sure about your own truths, then real truths will open wide their doors to you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beauty is a creature which lives everywhere: Under the ocean, above the clouds, even in the remote deserts! Wherever the ugliness may be on this universe, beauty will also be there giving hope to our lives! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
First help those who deserve; if any energy left at all, this time help those who do not deserve! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If God ever chooses a house to live on earth, it will be the House of Science, not the House of Religion! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let you be sincere and then you will always look pretty! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Weak hand needs strong hand till it becomes a strong hand; weak mind needs strong mind till it becomes a strong mind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
True thinking brings a good life! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No fox is foxier than man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years? -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best thing you can do about the wild horses is to leave them alone! Leave the wild life alone, then you will be the best protector! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The moment you realise and feel sad that the world does not hear and see you when you are in a small village, your marvellous journey starts towards the universal infinity! If you can be universal, everyone sees you, everyone hears you! Leave your local position! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
No hand is holier than the hand given to help for the needy! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Have you lost your way? Don't be sad; be happy, because you will see new places, places that you have never been to! It is magical to lose the way! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is slow like a snail; but what he needs is to run like a rabbit! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When hope leaves us, dark ghosts come to visit our minds! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The more you travel the more you realise that you must travel even more! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When an autumn leaf meets a beautiful lake, art reaches beyond the unreachable places! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake; mankind looks for the meaning of life in the middle of a mysterious cold space! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let the children play, let the children be children! And let us wish the same thing for the adults, let them also be children, especially when they turn into a boring creature! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog ... What a great genius this water is! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~ -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man by the truth is a house by the sea: He has a clear range of vision and a very fresh air! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are using flowers to create a hope, you are destroying another hope: The hope of flowers! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Doors to beautiful things do not remain open forever. Be fast to enter inside! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Art is a hot soup in this cold world! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! Everywhere is full of herds! To breath comfortably, to feel free, to think better and to find the beauties of the unknown paths leave your herd! In whichever herd you are in, leave it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the silence of the night, streetlights talk each other by touching their lights each other! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Children and cats are the best machines of fun! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
A nation who sits like cows on the fields while the country's trees are being cut down ruthlessly deserves the emptiest deserts thousands of times! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan