51. "He who keeps watch at night will rejoice in his heart during the day." [Imam al-Zarnuji]
52. "Allah's generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. Allah's generosity will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
53. "He only made affliction come at the hands of people so that you not repose them. He wants to drive you out of everything so that nothing would divert you from Him." [Ibn Athoillah al-Iskandari]
54. "Whoever when you please him says about you what is not in you, when you anger him will say about you what is not in you." [Imam al Shafi'i]
55. "Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all, it is only in the darkest nights that the stars shine most brilliantly." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
56. "If in spite of intense supplication, there is delay in the timing of the Gift, let that not be the cause for your despairing. For He has guaranteed you a response in what He chooses for you, not in what you choose for yourself, and at the time He desires not the time you desire." [Ibn Athoillah al-Iskandari]
57. "Be so tolerant that your chest becomes wide like the ocean." [Fethullan Gulen]
58. "Fight against the ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you. Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeting horseman in the field of battle." [Yahya ibn Mu'adh ar-Razi]
59. "There is nothing more beneficial to a Muslim's heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions." [Ahmad bin Harb]
60. "The likeness of this world is that of a river, one of its shores being the Hereafter, and the boat for crossing over is built from taqwa." [Abu Yaqub ibn Ishaq]
61. "Words are under your control until you have spoken them, but you come under their control once you have spoken them." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
62. "One who remembers death a lot will be easily contented with the simple things in life." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
63. "The sign that Allah has turned away from a servant is that He makes him busy with matters that are of no concern to him -- when a person reaches such a point, he must repent and ask Allah to guide him to those matters that are important and beneficial." [Hasan al-Basri]
64. "The sincere lover of Allah Most High passes his entire life preparing for death; for him, death is nothing more than a bridge leading to his Beloved." [Shaykh Zulfiqar]
65. "The contented one is freed from dependence upon the creation. He who leaves his desires attains his freedom." [Hasan al Basri]
66. "Everything you do in this world with the intention of acquiring worldly gain is reproachable, every deed discharged with the purpose of gaining in the Hereafter does not belong to this world." [Abu Sufyan al Re'einy]
67. "The world is like a mountain. Whatever you say, good or evil, will come back to you. If you imagine that you spoke beautifully, but the mountain returned an ugly echo, that is absurd." [Jalaluddin Rumi]
68. "Do not delude yourself into thinking that your children will attend to you without your having looked after your own parents." [Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad]
69. "The most difficult things to accomplish are generosity in times of hardship, abstaining in seclusion, and speaking the truth to one you fear and have hopes of." [Ma'ruf al Kharkhi]
70. "The sign that Allah is pleased with His servant is that His servant is pleased with His decree." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
71. "A sign that Allah despises you is when you find yourself wasting your time with trivial matters; And a sign that Allah likes you is when you find yourself fulfilling more duties than you have time for." [Ibn al Qayyim]
72. "The striving of the common people consists of acts, and the goal of the elect in striving is to purify their spiritual states. Enduring hunger and sleeplessness is very easy, but cultivating moral characteristics and cleansing them of lowly aspects is extremely difficult." [Al-Qushayri]
73. "The believer speaks little but does much. And the hypocrite talks a lot but does little. The believer's speech is wisdom, his silence is contemplation, his gaze is reflection, his actions are righteous. So if this is your state, you shall perpetually be in worship." [Fudayl bin Iyadh]
74. "A sign of the heart's death is the absence of sadness over the acts of obedience that you have neglected and the abandonment of regret over the mistakes that you have made." [Ibn Athoillah]
75. "Among mankind the best protector of his heart is the one who is most in possession of his tongue." [Dhun nun al-Misri]
76. "Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from God, and he is only His powerless and compelled means." [Imam al Haddad]
77. "So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows. For, truly, it manifests nothing but what is keeping with its character or its inevitable nature." [Ibn Athoillah]
78. "Bury your existence in the earth of obscurity, for whatever sprouts forth, without having first been buried, flowers imperfectly." [Ibn Athoillah]
79. "Laughter always follows tears. Blessed are those who understand. Life blossoms wherever water flows. Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown." [Rumi]
80. "The key to dignity in this life is obedience to Allah and the key to getting ready for the Hereafter is having short hopes." [Imam al-Mannawi]
81. "Those who value their parents and regard them as a means to obtain God's mercy are the most prosperous in both worlds. Those who regard parents' existence as a burden or who become weary of them inevitably suffer the most severe hardships in life." [Fethullah Gulen]
82. "Relying upon the promise of "tomorrow," many people have wandered around that door, but that tomorrow never comes." [Rumi]
83. "There is no salvation like the heart's salvation, given that all the limbs respond to its desires. Therefore, knowledge of the heart's ailments, what causes each of them and what removes them, is an obligation on everyone." [Imam al-Maulud]
84. "People praise you for what they suppose is in you, but you must blame your soul for what you know is in you." [Ibn Athoillah]
85. "This world is transitory and our life therein but a moment borrowed, our breaths numbered, yet our indifference reckless." [Abu Bakr as-Siddiq]
