Ruaa Ibrahim

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“وعندما تضطرب أحوالُ العَيش، وتبرز صعوبات مقلقة، يزداد تشبثه بربه، فعن ابن عمر، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم : "ما يمنع أحدكم، إذا عَسُر عليه أمر معيشته، أن يقول إذا خرج من بيته : بسم الله على نفسي ومالي وديني، اللهم رضِّـني بقضاءك، وبارك لي فيما قُـدِّر لي، حتى لا أحب تعجيل ما أخَّرت، ولا تأخير ما عجَّـلت" .... سبحان الله! أي علم بالنفس البشرية ومتاعبها كان عند هذا الرسول؟! وأي خزائن ملأى باليقين كان يمنح منها هذا وذاك ليستبقي العلاقة بالله ثابتة هادئة؟!.”
― محمد الغزالي, فن الذكر والدعاء عند خاتم الأنبياء