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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away."
"Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"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."
"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."
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard."
"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."
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world."
"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 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."
"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"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."
"And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man."
"Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination."
"Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path."
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
"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."
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a 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."
"Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?"
"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?"
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse."
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"
"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
"Ever has it been 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."
"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."
"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."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"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."
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