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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"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."
"Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face."
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
"I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time."
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"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."
"You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all."
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
"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."
"Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?"
"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away."
"There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence."
"Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination."
"You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
"You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree."
"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?"
"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."
"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
"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."
"Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results."
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves."
"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"
"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."
"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?"
"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon."
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