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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"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."
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
"My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
"Dream big, but stay humble."
"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon."
"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."
"Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves."
"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense, but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."
"The longer you fight, the stronger you become."
"The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"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."
"I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way."
"For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences."
"Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
"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."
"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
"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."
"Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language? "Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul."
"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."
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans, in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."
"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."
"But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed."
"When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
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