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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy."
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"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."
"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
"If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"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."
"Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give."
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry."
"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
"Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People."
"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."
"A negative mind will never give you a positive life."
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."
"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."
"People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in 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."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory."
"Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness."
"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."
"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
"If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember."
"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."
"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."
"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
"You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity."
"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."
"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
"Age is just reality we create for ourselves."
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
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