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"As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with an empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction, and from attachment to attachment." - Yasmin Mogahed

"If our inner state is dependent on something that is by definition inconstant, that inner state will also be inconstant. Depend on the One Constant - God." - Yasmin Mogahed

“If you allow dunya (creation/world) to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.” - Yasmin Mogahed

"The more we run after the dunya, the more it runs away from us. The more we chase wealth, ironically, the more poverty we feel." - Yasmin Mogahed

"Remeber that how others treat you is about them, not you. And how you treat others is about you, not them." - Yasmin Mogahed

"If you want God to help you, help another person. And if you want God to forgive you, forgive another person." - Yasmin Mogahed

"Be a person of principle. Treat all people well - regardless of how they treat you." - Yasmin Mogahed

"The secret to happiness is being a giver. The secret to unhappiness is being a taker." - Yasmin Mogahed

"Growing in religion should only make us grow in compassion, not in judgment. The heart filled with God is sofetned, not hardened." - Yasmin Mogahed

"I searched a thousand words, but found peace in silence." - Yasmin Mogahed

“If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.” - Yasmin Mogahed

“Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.”  - Yasmin Mogahed

"Life is seeking and finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right and to make it better." - Yasmin Mogahed

"Sometimes you fall only to rise higher than you were before. You fell. Now rise." - Yasmin Mogahed

"Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels.”  - Yasmin Mogahed

“Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.” - Yasmin Mogahed

"Sometimes the treatment hurts..."