Turkish Writers Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!

~ 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

If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!

~ 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

If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!

~ 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