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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?"
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it."
"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region."
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."
"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that."
"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."
"We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path."
"On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace."
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel."
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
"The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted."
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist."
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
"You have your ideology and I have mine."
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge."
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
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