Turkish Aphorisms Quotes

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

~ 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

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

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

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

~ 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

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

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