“Be steadfast and firm in the way toward what is right, even if your journey is full of pain and challenges.”

“Just as rust corrodes iron until it causes it to waste away, so too does jealousy corrode the body until it wears away.”

“The adornment of faith is purity of one's innermost thoughts coupled with good actions manifested outwardly.”

“It is incumbent upon you to seek forgiveness and supplicate excessively in the month of Ramadan. As for the supplication, by means of it the calamities are warded off from you, and as for the seeking of forgiveness, it erases away your sins.”

Imam Hasan al-Askari (as) was once asked the reasoning behind the obligation of fasting, to which he replied, “That the rich may experience the pain of hunger and bestow his generosity thereby upon the poor.”

“Gain control over your souls by your continuous struggle against it.”

“[Truly] Being rich is to wish for little and to be content with whatever suffices you, and [true] poverty is the voracity of the soul [for more] and severe despondence.”

“The adornment of your inner selves is more beautiful than the adornment of the outer.”

“Allah has never opened the door of request for anyone only to hold back the door of response.”

“Be apprehensive of your desires in the same way as you are apprehensive of your enemies. For there is no greater enemy for human beings than their own desires and what their tongues reap.”

“The believer neither accepts falsehood from a friend, nor rejects the truth from an enemy.”

“What is the matter with man that he is so given to self-admiration when his origin was but a putrid droplet, and his end is as a filthy corpse, and between these states he is but a vessel for excrement”

“Man must control and survey his own self, scrutinize his heart, and guard his tongue.”

“For indeed I ask You because of my eternal hope in You and because of the great desire that I entertain about You; which is the graciousness and mercy that You have made obligatory upon Yourself.”

“The best of deeds in the sight of Allah are those that are performed habitually, even if they be few in number.”

“The signs of a believer are five: piety [even] when in seclusion, giving charity in spite of lack, patience in the face of calamity, clemency when angered, and truthfulness in spite of fear.”

“Truly Allah loves every sorrowful heart.”