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.
"Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!"
"When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!"
"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"
"Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!"
"There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!"
"A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!"
"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!"
"When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!"
"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"
"When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!"
"In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!"
"Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!"
"To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!"
"The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!"
"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"
"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"
"Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!"
"Do the difficult thing, you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!"
"Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!"
"Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!"
"Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!"
"You will never be lonely on the right path because the truth itself is the best companion a person can ever have!"
"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
"Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!"
"You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!"
"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"
"You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!"
"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"
"Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!"
"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"
"You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people's own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people's life!"
"After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!"
"For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!"
"The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!"