– Sincerity is like glass, and keeping secrets is like diamonds.

– One of the types of sustenance is having someone who uplifts your spirits.

– The cost of ignorance is more than the expense of education.

– To live happily, live far away.

– Spend your money on things that can be bought with money, and spend your time on things that money cannot buy.

– The greatest distance between two people is misunderstanding.

– It is part of perfection to recognize your own flaws, and part of imperfection to think that you are perfect.

– My mother’s embrace is a rare kind of medicine.

– Forgive everyone, for it is embarrassing to stand at God’s door asking for forgiveness while you do not forgive.

– I learned that reading is an act of reverence; when you finish reading a book, you are no longer the person you were before.

– Live near someone who fears God, consult with someone who respects you, seek advice from someone who loves you, and befriend someone who understands you.

– Sweat during training saves blood in battle.

– Those who do not know history repeat the mistakes of those before them.

– “Highly intelligent people cannot be evil, because evil requires stupidity and limited thinking.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)

– Make your life a story worth telling.

– Beauty has ranks: the least is the beauty of features, the middle is the beauty of speech, the highest is the beauty of the soul, the most precious is the beauty of character, and the purest is the beauty of the heart.

– Learn love first, then celebrate a day for it.

– “Sometimes we leave not out of a love for departure, but because there is no benefit in staying.” (Nizar Qabbani)

– When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘we,’ even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness.’

– Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.

– Be a lamp, or a ladder, or a lifeboat … be human.

– Do not ask for anything twice, except from God.

– God’s compensations are amazing and worth the wait.

– “My family taught me how to speak, and people taught me silence.” (Czech Proverb)

– “To be human is easy, but to be a man is hard.” (Russian Proverb)

– “Self-admiration is born of ignorance.” (Spanish Proverb)

– “Arm your mind with knowledge, for it is better than adorning your body with jewels.” (Chinese Proverb)

– “Doing good to an ungrateful person is like throwing rose water into the sea.” (Polish Proverb)

– “He who shakes his neighbor’s house, will have his house fall.” (Swiss Proverb)

– “Evil is not beyond human ability, but beneath it.” (Agatha Christie)

– A contented slave is free, and a greedy free man is a slave.

– “Sometimes, your greatest achievement in life is that you have remained sane and still behave ethically, despite being surrounded by an innumerable amount of fools.” (Naguib Mahfouz)

– As long as onions can’t be made into jam, never expect someone with no integrity to become well-mannered.

– “The morning in which you do not hear ‘Good morning’ from the one you love remains night until further notice.” (Mahmoud Darwish)

– O you who walks on Egypt’s soil, be careful where you tread; if history could speak, you would kneel and kiss it.

– Love and fragrance cannot be hidden. (Chinese Proverb)

– “O human, do not forget death, for it will not forget you.” (Turkish Proverb)

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