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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot."
"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."
"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."
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
"The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction."
"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."
"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."
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated."
"In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn't have won."
"Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go."
"You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. 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."
"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
"We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
"Don't be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day."
"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."
"Self is a sea boundless and measureless."
"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."
"Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil."
"Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person."
"For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?"
"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."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."
"What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"
"The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that."
"I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment."
"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind."
"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets."
"You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams."
"Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism."
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
"In your winter you deny your spring."
"One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation."
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