Mehmet Murat ?ldan is a visionary Turkish playwright, novelist, and thinker born in 1965 in Elaz?g, Turkey. Known for his profound philosophical insights and poetic expressions, ?ldan has inspired countless readers worldwide with his sharp intellect and timeless quotes. His works often explore the beauty of nature, the complexity of human thought, and the pursuit of wisdom. Through his literary voice, he encourages courage, imagination, and positive thinking, leaving a powerful legacy for both current and future generations.
"For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!"
"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!"
"Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!"
"Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!"
"Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes!"
"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!"
"In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!"
"Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don't be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!"
"For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!"
"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"
"Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!"
"What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!"
"To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!"
"Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist, but the past existed!"
"The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!"
"Sun shines with its light, flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses."
"Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!"
"Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create..."
"Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!"
"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!"
"Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!"
"My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!"
"Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don't have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!"
"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!"
"If your words touch the hearts, that's good; if your words touch the minds, that's better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!"
"Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!"
"The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!"
"You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!"
"The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!"