Ildan Wisdom Quotes

As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan