"One's heart is a receptive port for Divine manifestations. Your love of the Creator and yearning to return to Him is the clearest sign of your being loved by God."-M. fetullah
"The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful." — Swami Vivekananda
“Be like a flower that gives fragrance, even to hand that crushes it.”- Ali ibn abi Talib (RA)
"Don’t complain that fate has made you poor! Die with such words on your lips and you’ll be poor in the next world as well."
Shaykh Saadi RA (via tasawwuf)
"You chase the dunya and its pleasures when the dunya was the punishment for Adam (alayhi salaam)"
Hasan al Basri (via yourdailynarcissist)
"…because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much."
Anne Lamott (via erraticintrovert)
"For the love of a rose, the gardener becomes the slave of a thousand thorns."
Turkish Proverb. (via rabba-sacheya)
"Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people."
The Breakfast Club (1985)
"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all."
Evelyn Waugh (via biwwfy)
"In times of suffering you call out “Allah!”
but as soon as it leaves, you ask “Where is the path?"
but as soon as it leaves, you ask “Where is the path?"
Rumi (M III 1142)
"There will come a time when holding onto your faith will be like holding a piece of hot coal."
