Give much, even if you’ve been given little.
IMAM ALIPatience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
More Imam Ali Quotes
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Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
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Vanity prevents improvement
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Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
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People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
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Don’t engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
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Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
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A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.
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The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
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Man ruins is present while worrying about his future – – but weeps in the future by recalling his past.
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True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
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Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become.
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Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.
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Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
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The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
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Accept the apology even if it is not sincere.
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Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
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Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!
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Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
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Silence is the garden of thought.
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn’t take action.
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One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
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Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.
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A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
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