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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"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."
"To belittle, you have to be little."
"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."
"Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it's said, the MOMENT after it's missed and the TIME after it's gone. Now you know."
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
"In the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"The real in us is silent, the acquired is talkative."
"On a moonless night a man entered into his neighbour's garden and stole the largest melon he could find and brought it home.He opened it and found it still unripe.Then behold a marvel!The man's conscience woke and smote him with remorse, and he repented having stolen the melon."
"Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated."
"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."
"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
"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."
"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."
"For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible."
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
"Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless..."
"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."
"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."
"And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good ."
"Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers."
"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."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
"They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself."
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"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."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
"Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."
"If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won."
"Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers."
"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."
"Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have."
"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Don't be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day."
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