Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

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

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

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

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it._x000D_ _x000D_ Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it._x000D_ _x000D_ You Presume you are a small entity,_x000D_ _x000D_ But within you is enfolded the entire universe._x000D_ _x000D_ You are indeed the evident book,_x000D_ _x000D_ By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest._x000D_ _x000D_ Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,_x000D_ _x000D_ What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

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

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

A man is hid under his tongue.

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

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.