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"The best du’as are not always about change in circumstance; often, they are about change in perspective."

"Good Decree doesn’t necessarily mean easy Decree. It could mean a hardship that brings you closer to Allah."

Art is a part of the urge of self. Art, like other activities of the self, cannot be true to itself if it is inconsistent with the rest of the urge for Beauty. Beauty ceases to be Beauty if it is divorced from Goodness and Truth. No attribute of Beauty can be separated from it. That art, which gives an immoral suggestion, is not only immoral and degenerate, but is also low and worthless as art.

"A man who does not hate other ideals does not love his own."

"You’re so kind that I would have to be made of stone not to feel it. Do you know what just occurred to me? I was comparing the two of you. Why isn’t he – you? Why isn’t he like you? He’s not as good as you, even though I love him more than you"

All dreams are images of future events but these images are sometimes blurred and sometimes vivid, depending upon our stimuli for the dream, with the result that some dreams are meaninglessly frightful and some others meaninglessly sweet, just as a person using various spectacles with uneven glasses of various colours and curvatures may make the same scene look more dreadful or more interesting than it really is.

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We may, therefore, define an ideal as that object or idea to which the self ascribes the highest beauty and excellence known to it at any time and to which, therefore, it attaches itself whole-heartedly. The knowledge implied in the word ‘known’ used in this connection must be understood as a feeling and not as an intellectual knowledge of logical propositions or merely a piece of information stored in memory.

The individual man must limit his individual quest for knowledge of the second kind (acquired knowledge) to his own practical needs and suited to his nature and capacity, so that he may set both the knowledge and himself in their right places in relation to his real self and thus maintain a condition of justice.

"The goal of healthy relationships is not how to avoid conflict altogether, but how to resolve it successfully. Sometimes the first step is to acknowl edge that conflict is normal and healthy, and that conflict resolution creates an opportunity for the relationship to grow and be stronger than before."

We sometimes meet women whose attitude is "My money is my money, and your money is my money”. It is not fair to expect him to pay daycare expenses, her parking expenses, and gas expenses related to commuting unless she is going to share her income to contribute to household expenses. It is important for a spirit of sharing to exist in the relationship rather than an emphasis on individual accumulation of wealth.