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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
"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."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
"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."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
"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."
"My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing."
"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."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
"The longer you fight, the stronger you become."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees."
"It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it."
"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."
"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."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"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."
"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."
"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
"The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will."
"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."
"Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand."
"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."
"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense, but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way."
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
"Dream big, but stay humble."
"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."
"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom."
"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:Your seeds shall live in my body,And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,And your fragrance shall be my breath,And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons."
"My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things."
"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."
"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."
"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."
"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."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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