always try to remember; it isn't that life sucks, the universe isn't that personal. its that expectation creates opportunity for disappointment, the solution to which ought to be obvious. being obvious doesn't make it any easier to implement. but it does exist.
"You chase the Dunya and its pleasures - when the Dunya was the Punishment for Adam." - Hasan al-Basri
"The earth is uninhabitable, like the moon, and we only delude ourselves thinking that it’s our true home, since we have no other place to go. The earth is good for those who are irrational or invulnerable."
I certainly know the difference between someone who is genuinely a nice person, and someone who is pretending to be nice.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
when what you choose to pretend, depends upon what someone else tells you to pretend, whatever it is that you've got, it isn't freedom. it is also true, that there are things that don't depend on your pretending them. have a good relationship, with all invisible things that mean well, but let this arise from within your own self, and not from what is assumed, however commonly, by others.
everyone would like to believe that they do, but being able to recognize this in another person, other then by the evidence of their behavior, is improbable in the extreme.
when you can't do unto others, as THEY would have you do unto them, the best thing to do FOR them, is to avoid disturbing them.
"One should spend more time wondering about the ‘whether’, rather than moaning about the ‘weather’" (= One of my own)
even expensive things wear out, even the simple ones that don't look like they ever would, like drill steel and ripper teeth.