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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
"For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart."
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
"The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that."
"And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good ."
"I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment."
"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
"You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time."
"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets."
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have left."
"A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves."
"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom."
"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure."
"In your winter you deny your spring."
"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me."
"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."
"I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you."
"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."
"People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone."
"My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus."
"Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit."
"The things you do for yourself are gone when you're gone, but the things you do for others become legacy.What do you wanna be remembered as?"
"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
"After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
"After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure."
"Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed."
"Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it's said, the MOMENT after it's missed and the TIME after it's gone. Now you know."
"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
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