My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. 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.

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself

The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.

You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.