Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

Do not always live in your world; visit the worlds of others too!

Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures!

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong!

Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

Do the difficult thing; you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!

Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!