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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"
"Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret."
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable."
"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.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."
"The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything."
"Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence."
"And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."
"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying."
"People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life."
"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."
"The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are."
"You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation."
"I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious."
"If what you do doesn't make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential."
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
"You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness."
"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
"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."
"It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
"Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.And your body is the harp of your soul,And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds."
"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."
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."
"When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful."
"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering."
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming."
"I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge."
"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."
"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."
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it."
"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."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
"Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did."
"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination."
"Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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