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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
"Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give."
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
"If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others."
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
"A negative mind will never give you a positive life."
"Keep cool. Anger is not an argument."
"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry."
"Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life."
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
"When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet."
"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."
"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."
"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."
"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."
"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."
"Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision."
"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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."
"Your friend is your needs answered."
"We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all."
"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."
"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."
"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."
"The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights."
"Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People."
"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
"When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense."
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