“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

If not now, when?

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Men must not only know, they must act.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it