Turkish Literature Quotes

In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!

~ 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan