Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!

Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

Open the door by yourself instead of waiting the door to be opened by itself!

Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!