104 quotes
"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
New Beginnings
"When a flower and a child come together, it makes two flowers or two children because every child is a flower, and every flower is a child."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Connection to Earth
"Every morning is a revolution against the darkness."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage
"What better motivation are you looking for in the morning than the incredible motivation of the morning sunrise?"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Motivation
"If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness
"To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage
"If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Self-awareness
"In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Creativity
"By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inner Peace
"Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Gratitude
"New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope
"In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Gratitude
"Sunset is the opening music of the night."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Mindfulness
"Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Simplicity
""The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you.""
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Motivation
"A positive attitude towards life is the strongest shield against the demoralizing arrows of life!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Strength
"There are millions of homeless people in the world because humanity does not have a proper conscience!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness
"There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Achievement
"Wherever there are birds, there is hope."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope
"If you overvalue the uncommon, you spoil the uncommon and it begins to think of itself as something very precious! Don’t forget, a three-leaf clover is as valuable as the five-leaf-clover!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Spirituality
"The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones some else [is] carrying."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Compassion
"In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years, because they enabled you to reach today. Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection
"Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage
"There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Adaptation
"The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom
"Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated positive energy!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Success
"In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness
"Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage
"A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Service
"If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness
"Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Integrity
"A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life and remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Knowledge
"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!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Taking Risks
"The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom
"You fool, what better motivation are you looking for in the morning than the incredible motivation of the morning sunrise?"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Motivation
"Sunrise looks spectacular in nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"As the sun rises on the top of the mountain, the valleys in the dark watch it enviously! The light first visits those who have raised their mind high! Those who are at the lowest gets the light last!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nature
"Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Resilience
"When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom
"No matter how powerful a waterfall is, it cannot be heard from far away because all waterfalls are local! If you want the whole world to hear you, take a universal position where all can see you, just like the Moon, just like the Sun!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"A waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Happiness
"While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in nature; there is happiness if only there is freedom."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"If there is a waterfall at the end of a river, it is necessary to swim upstream! Crowds too are rivers that end with waterfalls!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"A cat’s New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don’t be like a cat; in your New Year dream something that you have never dreamed. Target for new things."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Ambition
"When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in autumn."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Imagination
"When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in autumn"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other's life."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Change
"When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope
"Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Compassion
"Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Integrity
"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Change
"Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection
"Eventually, winter comes; eventually, spring comes; eventually, summer comes, and eventually autumn comes! If they don’t show themselves, then there’s a problem!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Change
"Ants are successful creatures; they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Teamwork
"You must never despise the port you were born because no matter how small or how bad it is, it is the place you have started sailing to the universe!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Determination
"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"Everyone has a prison they are stuck in! Words are the author's prison; the scenes, the actors 'prison; the fields, the peasants' prison; boats, fishermen's prison; love, lovers’ prison! Always remind yourself of the world outside of your own prison so that the prison knows its limits and doesn't make you a slave! Remember, the perfect prison is still a prison! Never put your freedom at the disposal of anything or anyone, because it belongs only to you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Self-awareness
"The strongest prison is the one where you are afraid to leave even though the door is open! There is no more heavy imprisonment than being afraid to be free!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Facing Fears
"Dreams are easy to create but hard to kill, so you've created a lot of dreams, but you don't have many lives! Sit down and calmly say goodbye to some of your dreams! And now that your load has been reduced, you can move forward towards your few but important dreams!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness
"When the train you have been waiting for arrives at the station, a dream comes true and the fulfilment of a dream is to fall into a void because now you need a new dream; what keeps people alive is chasing dreams!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Transformation
"Sometimes some of our dreams don't come true! And after a long time, we realize that it was not a punishment of the universe but on the contrary it was its great blessing for us!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection
"Everyone can have a great dream, but in the end, the only thing that counts is to have great determination to make that dream come true!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Determination
"The greatest warrior is the one who can defeat his enemies without using weapons and without resorting to any violence!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Peace
"Are you Muslim? I do not care! Are you Christian I do not care! Are you a Buddhist or a Jew? I don't care! Are you a good person, what I want to hear, what I want to see in you, that's what I'm looking for in you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Respect
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom
"Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels, it becomes the path itself."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Philosophy
"There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Resilience
"Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nature
"The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Perseverance
"The stars of the night inspire you; and then you write poetry and inspire others; this time others create new things with the inspiration they get from you! You see, thousands of beauty are created with a simple inspiration!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"If your walking inspires others a lot then you should walk a lot because the good you give to others will definitely come back to you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inspiration
"Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope
"You're waiting for something magical to happen in the New Year so that your dreams will come true! But the greatest and the most real magic is working and striving hard to achieve the goal!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hard Work
"You expect good things from the New Year, you expect hope, but the New Year also has something to tell you: You create both the good things and the hope yourself, so don't expect anything, do it yourself, create it yourself, don't wait!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Empowerment
"A person who gets lost in a dark forest waits with great hopes that the sun comes and saves him! And a person who gets lost in the gloomy days of a dark year also waits with great hopes that the New Year comes and saves him!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope
"If you're looking for a New Year where you won't have any problems, oh, you're asking for so much, my friend, so much! What you want for the New Year is actually very simple: Ask for the mental and physical strength to overcome whatever difficulties you encounter in the New Year!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Strength
"The New Year is made up of seconds, and if you don't make good use of even seconds, you won't make good use of the New Year!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Time Management
"When you enter the New Year with longing for the old year, you break the heart of the New Year and you ethically forfeit the right to ask for new things that the New Year can give you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
New Beginnings
"If we think of the New Year like a Santa Claus, his most useful gift for you is to give you a whole new thrill, a brand new shake-up to do what you couldn't do in previous years!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
New Beginnings
"There has never been a ‘New Year’ that has managed to become 'new' if the mistakes of the old years are repeated!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection
"What can an old house hope for in the New Year? What a new house can hope for in the New Year, the old house can also do them, because the universe we live in has a structure that can make things happen that will never happen!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope
"If you do not enter the New Year more mature, more planned, more careful, more logical, more intelligent, in short, more developed, the New Year will be a repeat of the past years!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Personal Growth
"The wolf does not need a shepherd; the shepherd is the fate of the weak!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Strength
"As long as the sun does not set in your mind, darkness will be nothing but a weak shadow in your life!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Mindfulness
"Sunset is the most spiritual moment where the human race meets the extraordinary spirit of the universe."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Spirituality
"If you have found a path worth to walk, never complain about walking!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Motivation
"Not humans, but birds often witness the most beautiful mornings in this world!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awareness
"Birds are not free since Men have invented cages."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Belief in Self
""Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.""
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Learning from Mistakes
"What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Aspirations