Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible that he may turn into your enemy some day. And hate your enemy up to a limit , for it is possible that he may turn into your friend someday. -Imam Ali (AS)

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible that he may turn into your enemy some day. And hate your enemy up to a limit , for it is possible that he may turn into your friend someday.

Learn to be quite just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quite protects you. By being quite, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you and you are able to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you. -Imam Ali (AS)

Learn to be quite just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quite protects you. By being quite, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you and you are able to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you.  

If poverty was a man I would've killed him. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

If poverty was a man I would've killed him.

Oh Allah, when I lose my hopes and plans, help me remember that your love is greater than my disappointments, and your plans for my life are better than my dreams. -Imam Ali (AS)

Oh Allah, when I lose my hopes and plans, help me remember that your love is greater than my disappointments, and your plans for my life are better than my dreams.

If you truly knew Allah as He is worthy of being known, you would be able to walk on the seas and the mountains would fall by your command. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

If you truly knew Allah as He is worthy of being known, you would be able to walk on the seas and the mountains would fall by your command. 

Your friends are many when you count them, but in hardships they become few. -Imam Ali (AS)

Your friends are many when you count them, but in hardships they become few.

If someone is not your brother in faith, he is your brother in humanity. -Imam Ali (AS)

If someone is not your brother in faith, he is your brother in humanity.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive. -Imam Ali (AS)

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

Knowledge is better than wealth because it protest you while you have to protect wealth. Wealth decreases if you keep on spending it, but the more you make use of knowledge the more it increases. What you get through wealth disappears as soon as wealth disappears, but what you achieve through knowledge will remain even after you. -Imam Ali (AS)

Knowledge is better than wealth because it protest you while you have to protect wealth. Wealth decreases if you keep on spending it, but the more you make use of knowledge the more it increases. What you get through wealth disappears as soon as wealth disappears, but what you achieve through knowledge will remain even after you.

Be like the flower who even gives its fragrance to the hand that crushes it. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Be like the flower who even gives its fragrance to the hand that crushes it.

The listener to backbiting is the same as the backbiter. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

The listener to backbiting is the same as the backbiter.

Women are like flowers. They Should be treated gently, kindly, and with affection. -Imam Ali (AS)

Women are like flowers. They Should be treated gently, kindly, and with affection.

A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but she cannot hide her hatred for more than an hour. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but she cannot hide her hatred for more than an hour.

There is always enough light for one who wishes to see. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

There is always enough light for one who wishes to see.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative he will be. -Imam Ali (AS)

The wiser a man is, the less talkative he will be.

Do not keep the company of an evil person, for surely your character will take on something of his character without you even realizing it. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Do not keep the company of an evil person, for surely your character will take on something of his character without you  even realizing it.

Friendship transfers a stranger into a relative. -Imam Ali (AS)

Friendship transfers a stranger into a relative.

Destiny is two days, One for you and one against you, so when its for you don't be proud or reckless, and when its against you be patient. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Destiny is two days, One for you and one against you, so when its for you don't be proud or reckless, and when its against you be patient.

Don't submit to this world and what's within it, For surely without a doubt death will end us and end it. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Don't submit to this world and what's within it, For surely without a doubt death will end us and end it.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on the mother who taught you how to speak. -Imam Ali (AS)

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on the mother who taught you how to speak.

If anyone thinks, well of you then make his opinion true. -Imam Ali (AS)

If anyone thinks, well of you then make his opinion true.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. -Imam Ali (AS)

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Being righteous left me alone with no friends. -Imam Ali (AS)

Being righteous left me alone with no friends.

7 RULES TO HAPPINESS 1 Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. 2 Do not fret, regardless of the extent of your worries. 3 Live humbly, regardless of how high your status reaches. 4 Expect good, regardless of how much trials you accumulate. 5 Give abundantly, even if you are deprived. 6 Smile, even if your hearts is bleeding. 7 Do not stop your prayers for your fellow human beings in faith, even in their absence. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

7 RULES TO HAPPINESS

1 Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you.

2 Do not fret, regardless of the extent of your worries.

3 Live humbly, regardless of how high your status reaches.

4 Expect good, regardless of how much trials you accumulate.

5 Give abundantly, even if you are deprived.

6 Smile, even if your hearts is bleeding.

7 Do not stop your prayers for your fellow human beings in faith, even in their absence. 

Never make a decision in a anger, and never make a promise in happiness. -Imam Ali (AS)

Never make a decision in a anger, and never make a promise in happiness.

Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who are you. -Imam Ali (AS)

Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who are you.

Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence. -Hazrat Ali Imam (AS)

Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence.

When you think of doing good, rush to do it immediately for verily you do not know what could happen later (to prevent you from doing it). -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

When you think of doing good, rush to do it immediately for verily you do not know what could happen later (to prevent you from doing it).

There is no loneliness more miserable than self-admiration. -Imam Ali (AS)

There is no loneliness more miserable than self-admiration.

Keep praying for what it is you seek. Impossibility and possibility are merely concepts of your mind. To Allah, nothing is impossible. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Keep praying for what it is you seek. Impossibility and possibility are merely concepts of your mind. To Allah, nothing is impossible.  

Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. And your remedy id within you, but you do not sense it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the evident book, by whose alphabet the hidden becomes manifest. therefore you have no need to lock beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. And your remedy id within you, but you do not sense it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the evident book, by whose alphabet the hidden becomes manifest. therefore you have no need to lock beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

Oh Allah! I did not worship You because I am afraid of hell, or out of greed for Your paradise. I have worshiped You because I found You worthy of being worshiped. -Imam Ali (AS)

Oh Allah! I did not worship You because I am afraid of hell, or out of greed for Your paradise. I have worshiped You because I found You worthy of being worshiped.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful. -Imam Ali (AS)

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

Whoever is aware of his own faults will have no time for the faults of others. -Imam Ali (AS)

Whoever is aware of his own faults will have no time for the faults of others.

I am the lion of Allah, and I am the sword of Allah. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

I am the lion of Allah, and I am the sword of Allah.

Live among st people in such a manner that if you die they weep our you, and if you alive they crave for your company. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Live among st people in such a manner that if you die they weep our you, and if you alive they crave for your company.

The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

The right of freedom of  speech consists in speaking the truth.

Do not cry on your pillow, for that will not change anything. Get up and cry on your prayer mat, and Allah will grant you case after your hardships. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

Do not cry on your pillow, for that will not change anything. Get up and cry on your prayer mat, and Allah will grant you case after your hardships.

If the eyes of a female cry over a man that oppressed her, then the Angels will him with every step he walks. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

If the eyes of a female cry over a man that oppressed her, then the Angels will him with every step he walks.

Moving mountains is easier than bringing hostile hearts together. -Imam Ali (AS)

Moving mountains is easier than bringing hostile hearts together.

Asceticism (zuhd) is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Asceticism (zuhd) is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Good intentions are the most beautiful of secrets. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

Good intentions are the most beautiful of secrets.

Knowledge is better than wealth because it protects you, while you have to protect wealth. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

Knowledge is better than wealth because it protects you, while you have to protect wealth.

The people of paradise will gaze upon the ranks of our Shi'a just as one of you gazes at the stars on the horizons of the sky. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

The people of paradise will gaze upon the ranks of our Shi'a just as one of you gazes at the stars on the horizons of the sky.

The world can not defeat you until you accept the defeat. -Imam Ali (AS)

The world can not defeat you until you accept the defeat.

Every container becomes tightly packed with what is put in it, except for the container of knowledge, for surely it expands. -Imam Ali (AS)

Every container becomes tightly packed with what is put in it, except for the container of knowledge, for surely it expands.

Through patience, great things are accomplished. -Imam Ali (AS)

Through patience, great things are accomplished.

Do not tell your Lord you have great problems, tell your problems you have a great Lord. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

Do not tell your Lord you have great problems, tell your problems you have a great Lord.

IT'S BETTER TO DIE THAN BEG. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

IT'S BETTER TO DIE THAN BEG.

Be respectful to women, for they are the mothers of mankind. -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS)

Be respectful to women, for they are the mothers of mankind.