Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.

Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.

Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.