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.
"Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!"
"The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!"
"If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!"
"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!"
"Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!"
"Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!"
"If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!"
"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
"If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!"
"It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!"
"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
"The place you look at for the salvation must be the science, not the skies!"
"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!"
"Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!"
"To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!"
"World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!"
"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!"
"No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!"
"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!"
"If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!"
"A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!"
"You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!"
"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!"
"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!"
"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"
"If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before!"
"In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!"
"Visit your life, because you are spending too much time in others life! Visit yourself!"
"Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!"
"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?"
"To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!"
"If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!"