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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense."
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
"The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth, but rather, "I have found a truth. Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
"Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers."
"The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't.... Very simple."
"Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."
"And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound."
"Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have."
"The professors in the academy say, "Do not make the model more beautiful than she is, and my soul whispers, "O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is."
"Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends."
"Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth."
"No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence."
"Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters."
"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."
"Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best."
"You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy."
"That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart."
"Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill."
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."
"NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?"
"They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself."
"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"
"Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it."
"I cannot tarry longer. The sea that calls all things unto her calls me."
"Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy."
"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."
"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."
"Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
"You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime."
"And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.And it is well that you should.The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;and the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.For self is a sea boundless and measureless."
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