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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
"Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
"Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others."
"Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done."
"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."
"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."
"You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams."
"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."
"Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful."
"After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice."
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
"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."
"Any definition of a successful life must include service to others."
"The future belongs to those who innovate."
"True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
"Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling."
"It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness."
"Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
"No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence."
"To be the best you must be able to handle the worst."
"I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement."
"Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil."
"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."
"It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it."
"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."
"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."
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
"The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
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