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Quotes by Lebanese Authors

"Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go."

"You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

"We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future."

"Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way."

"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."

"Self is a sea boundless and measureless."

"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."

"Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person."

"Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless..."

"A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart."

"If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don't ignore problems. Don't assume it will get better."

"The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."

"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."

"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

"I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment."

"Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul."

"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets."

"Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"

"In your winter you deny your spring."

"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."

"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?"

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."

"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."

"You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate."

"Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop."

"There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth."

"Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips."

"Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell."

"When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

"Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply."

"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
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