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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain."
"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."
"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."
"Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength."
"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."
"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."
"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."
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
"Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."
"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."
"You are good when you strive to give of yourself."
"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."
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."
"Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories."
"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."
"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
"To belittle, you have to be little."
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market."
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
"The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone."
"If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won."
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
"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."
"Let your home be you mast and not your anchor."
"Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."
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