Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself and no one ever will! Believe in yourself powerfully, especially when there is no reason left to believe in yourself because the ultimate bottom is the best place to start a big rise!

~ 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

Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won’t make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To give light to others, you must first take light from others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.

~ 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

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don’t give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Something right in the morning can turn into something wrong in the afternoon! Even if you are on the right path, you must still question the rightness of your path! Conditions perpetually change! Update your path and your travel constantly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want people to enter your world, you don’t need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!

~ 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