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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
"Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action."
"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
"We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
"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."
"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
"You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation."
"If what you do doesn't make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential."
"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."
"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."
"The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind."
"But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips."
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."
"But 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."
"For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We're ALL guests on Earth, not Management."
"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."
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable."
"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away."
"Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you."
"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."
"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."
"Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius."
"Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence."
"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."
"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering."
"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."
"There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000."
"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth."
"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."
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite."
"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."
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
"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."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom."
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
"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."
"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."
"I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge."
"Your friend is your needs answered."
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