As if you weren't meant to expire and be forgotten?"

Al Imaam Ibn al Jawzi said:

"O you who persists on mistakes and wrong doings;
O you who has turned away from what the most Loving
and Compassionate commands;
O you who obeys the falsifier of the path and the creator of calamities .

How long are you going to insist on your misbehavior?
How long are you going to keep yourself distant from your Lord?
How long will you seek from this world what you cannot have,
and keep away from the other world by that which you cannot possess?
Neither are you sure of what Allaah prepared of sustenance for you,
nor are you satisfied with that which He has commanded for you.
O my brother, by Allaah! Admonition does not seem to benefit you!
Afflictions do not seem to threaten you!
Time does not leave you and the call of death does not reach your ears!
As if, you poor man, would live forever and

you weren't meant to expire and be forgotten?"

Source: al Bahr ad-Dumoo' -The sea of tears

Who is the 'noble?'

Ibn Hibban:
"The noble does not hurt the wise, he does not joke with the stupid and he does not mingle with the sinner."

(ar-Rawdhah, p. 173) 

The believers are not comfortable settlers in this wordly life, but rather strange travelers

"Get yourself out of this limited world of diseases to the wide world of the Hereafter, which has what the eyes have never seen. Nothing is impossible there, and love is not lost. O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty. You sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the price. Wait until you come to the Day of mutual loss and gain (The Day Of Resurrection/Judgment Day)and you will discover the injustice of this contract. 'There is no deity worthy of worship (in truth) except Allaah'  is something that Allaah is buying. Its price is paradise, and the messenger is its agent, and you will be pleased to part with a small part of this worldly life to obtain it. The part you lose is a small part of something, that as a whole, is not worth a mosquito's wing.(in the sight of it's Creator, and those who love and long for Him)"

[Taken from the book Al-Fawaa'id (Benefits) by the late Muslim scholar Ibnul-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah]

Beautiful advice from Imaam Abu Hatim rahimahullaah

"It is necessary that the intelligent person accustoms his soul to forgiving people and to leave repaying evil with evil. This is because there is nothing that would silence evil better than good treatment and beneficence and there is nothing that would stir up evil more than repaying evil with evil. Whoever desires copious reward, to receive devout love and good mention, let him experience the bitterness of opposing his base desires and taking to the way we have highlighted: joining relations when they have been severed; giving in the face of prevention; hilm in the face of ignorance; and forgiveness in the face of oppression. These are the greatest morals and manners of the religious."