What advice would you offer for recognizing and breaking out of behavioral patterns?

Understanding this world and the Hereafter, reflecting on the work of creation and grasping why we were created—and understanding the essence of worship and servitude to God—makes us resilient in hardship and saves us from self-admiration amid success and privilege.

When our deeds are directed along the path of God’s pleasure, no defeat or victory can keep us from moving forward and rising higher.

So we must never forget God, nor let trust in Him fall away from our lives.

الحديد : 23 لِكَيْلا تَأْسَوْا عَلى‏ ما فاتَكُمْ وَ لا تَفْرَحُوا بِما آتاكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ لا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتالٍ فَخُورٍ
That is so that you may not grieve over what has escaped you, nor exult over what He has given you. God does not love anyone arrogant and boastful.

البقرة : 156 الَّذينَ إِذا أَصابَتْهُمْ مُصيبَةٌ قالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ
Those who, when calamity befalls them, say, “We belong to God, and to Him we shall return.”

هود : 88 قالَ يا قَوْمِ أَ رَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُ عَلى‏ بَيِّنَةٍ مِنْ رَبِّي وَ رَزَقَني‏ مِنْهُ رِزْقاً حَسَناً وَ ما أُريدُ أَنْ أُخالِفَكُمْ إِلى‏ ما أَنْهاكُمْ عَنْهُ إِنْ أُريدُ إِلاَّ الْإِصْلاحَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُ وَ ما تَوْفيقي‏ إِلاَّ بِاللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَ إِلَيْهِ أُنيبُ
He said, “My people, tell me: if I have clear proof from my Lord and He has granted me a good provision, can I act against His command? I do not wish to do what I forbid you to do. I seek only to set things right as far as I am able. My success comes only from God. In Him I place my trust, and to Him I turn.”