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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard."
"Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action."
"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?"
"We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars."
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
"Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of the Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts."
"When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'."
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite."
"Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you."
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel."
"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city."
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
"You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
"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 fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour."
"Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it."
"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
"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."
"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."
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"If you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing."
"Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?"
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
"Dream big, but stay humble."
"I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that "spark" yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do."
"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."
"Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree."
"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."
"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away."
"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"
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