Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The easiest way to be immortal is to stop thinking and the easiest way to stop thinking is to work hard physically! Remember, when you don’t think, you are immortal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!

~ 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

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man stroking a dog’s head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!

~ 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

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan