Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.