Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

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

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.