“What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.”

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

I always wanted to live a man’s life in a woman’s body.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.