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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"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."
"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
"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."
"Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters."
"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."
"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."
"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me."
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights."
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
"The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone."
"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept."
"He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine."
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."
"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."
"But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed."
"The professors in the academy say, "Do not make the model more beautiful than she is, and my soul whispers, "O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is."
"You are good when you strive to give of yourself."
"What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"
"Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories."
"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."
"Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength."
"To belittle, you have to be little."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
"Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts."
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams."
"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."
"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern fA1?4hrt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."
"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
"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."
"Don't be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day."
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."
"The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that."
"Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers."
"You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time."
"No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."
"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation."
"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."
"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."
"Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."
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