Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good.

What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.

Sometimes you don't realize how special something is until you lose it. Thats how I feel about Ramadan every year.

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.