What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.
If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One
I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.
No outward thing - nothing, nobody from without - can hurt me inside, psychologically. I recognized that I could only be hurt psychologically by my own wrong actions, which I have control over; by my own wrong reactions (they are tricky, but I have control over them too); or by my own inaction in some situations, like the present world situation, that need action from me. When I recognized all this how free I felt! And I just stopped hurting myself.
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.