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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"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."
"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."
"One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends."
"What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"
"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."
"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?"
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters."
"Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others."
"We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius."
"Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done."
"Maturity comes with experience, not age."
"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."
"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."
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
"I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was. I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven. I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."
"One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation."
"Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy."
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
"What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?"
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."
"Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are."
"Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency."
"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."
"There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up."
"The 2 greatest equalizers in life: Education and the Internet."
"The future belongs to those who innovate."
"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
"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."
"I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..."
"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."
"I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough."
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