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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."
"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?"
"The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't.... Very simple."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."
"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."
"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."
"The real in us is silent, the acquired is talkative."
"No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears."
"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."
"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."
"I loved him not, yet I did not hate Him. I listened to Him not to hear His words but rather he sound of His voice; for His voice pleased me. All that He said was vague to my mind, but the music thereof was clear to my ear. Indeed were it not for what others have said to me of His teaching, I should not have known even so much as whether He was with Judea or against it."
"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain."
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
"I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was. I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven. I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."
"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure."
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
"I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials."
"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."
"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
"If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won."
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
"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."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"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."
"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.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."
"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."
"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
"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."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!"
"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"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."
"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. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."
"Power lasts ten years, influence not more than a hundred."
"Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill."
"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 ."
"We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius."
"NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?"
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