Ayesha

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn--the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you. O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“فَرَكْعَتَانِ فِي جَوْفِ اللّيْلِ كَنْزٌ مِنْ كُنُوْزِ الْبِرِّ، فَا سْتكْثِرْ مِنْ كُنُوْزِكَ لِيَوْمِ فَقْرِكَ، فَلَنْ تُغْنِيَ عَنْكَ كُنُوْزُ الدُّنْيَا إِِذَا مِتَّ.

Two rak'as in the depths of the night [before fajr] are among the treasures of piety, so augment your treasures for the day of your poverty, for the treasures of this world will be of no use when you die.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي

“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Every ant  knows the  formula of its ant-hill,
every  bee knows  the formula  of its  beehive.
They know it  in their own way, not in our way.
Only humankind does not know its own formula.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky