1. Pay attention to what bugs you. It could be telling you something important about yourself.
2. Don’t just live with negative feelings. Decide that you will fight to have a happier life.
3. Don’t change or stifle your personality. You’re valuable and gifted. Be true to who you are.
4. don’t ignore physical symptoms. They might be highlighting unresolved issues, frustrations or pain. Perhaps these need to be consciously addressed.
5. Notice where your mind goes when it starts to wander. This often gives you insights into wishes, hopes and dreams.
6. Be willing to acknowledge and face your fears as they’re stopping you from going for the life you want to have.
7. Instead of feeling envious of others and their life, ask yourself what’s missing from your own life right now.
“…Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
There comes a point in life where you just want better for yourself. A better life, better people, better energies, better routine, better faith, better health, better mental progression.
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
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The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives.
Four matters bring [i.e. increase] sustenance:
1. Staying up in the night for prayers.
2. Frequently seeking forgiveness from Allāh before dawn.
3) Regular charity.
4) Remembrance [i.e. glorify the praises] of Allāh at the beginning and the end of the day.
Zād al-Ma’ād 4/378 | Al-Imām ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله