“To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.”

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Man ruins is present while worrying about his future – – but weeps in the future by recalling his past.

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Think positively, no matter how hard life is.

Where there is haste, there must be mistake.

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude.

People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

Misery doesn’t love just any company it desires the kind presence only loneliness feeds but that’s not love at all. – love doesn’t eat it bleeds.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

All the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.