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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"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."
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
"My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing."
"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."
"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."
"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
"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."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
"It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it."
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
"I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way."
"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."
"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."
"The longer you fight, the stronger you become."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"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."
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
"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."
"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."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand."
"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."
"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."
"The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will."
"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."
"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."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
"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."
"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
"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."
"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
"You are good when you strive to give of yourself."
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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