Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!

A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

In action is the worst action of human beings!

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

When you do your work happily, work will disappear.

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!