“If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.”

Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.

If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.

The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.

You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don’t say anything bad. Don’t be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.

That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

Your own expectations will be the end of you.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that’s going to be there forever.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

You are, Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.