“Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.”

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.

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

Money can’t buy you happiness but it buys you all the things you don’t have, even friends.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.