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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"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."
"When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense."
"Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean."
"The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?"
"The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are."
"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"
"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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 from 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. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
"Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life."
"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying."
"Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming."
"Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware."
"What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength."
"There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience."
"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
"When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'."
"Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence."
"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
"To be real successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish; then resolve to pay the price to get it."
"Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for... Be a "game changer"....The basic tenets of my life philosophy."
"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."
"The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes."
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel."
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
"Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city."
"Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret."
"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."
"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
"Yesterday is but to-day's memory and to-morrow is to-day's dream."
"I don't see any dearth of women leaders, it's a question of what we consider a woman leader."
"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
"Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a win attached to a claw,But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo."
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