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Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.

Yasmin Mogahed

There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief:
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Beautiful Change Laughter
The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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Inspirational Life Love Sometimes
My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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Looking Magazines Righteousness Something
If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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Heart Ocean Sea Touch
The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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God Wisdom Wise
We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Blessings False Give God Heart
I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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Choices Either Greatest People Thinking True
Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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Go Heart Letting Mean
If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!
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Encouraging Heartbreak Past
Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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Each Journey Random Unique
Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Left Praying Whisper
We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
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Asking Everything Listening Question Sign Speak
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Expectations Recipes Unhappiness
Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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Fall Succeeds Taken Thinking
I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes.
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Character Fashion Heart

Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.

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