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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
"The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes."
"Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand."
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions."
"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."
"I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families."
"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."
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
"The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision."
"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon."
"My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing."
"Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results."
"I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way."
"The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living."
"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."
"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."
"Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path."
"To belittle, you have to be little."
"I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever."
"True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower."
"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."
"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun."
"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion."
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."
"It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it."
"I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials."
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."
"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 a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
"But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed."
"Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar 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."
"Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem."
"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves."
"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense, but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."
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