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Quotes by Lebanese Authors
"Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow."
"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."
"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."
"A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart."
"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?"
"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain."
"The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."
"In much of your talking thinking is half murdered."
"And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?"
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
"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."
"I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment."
"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?"
"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."
"Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot."
"Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space , but he cannot give you his understanding.The musician may sing to you of the rythem which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythem nor the voice that echoes it .And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure , but he cannot conduct you thither .For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man ."
"My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus."
"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."
"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
"If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense."
"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 house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction."
"The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't.... Very simple."
"Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."
"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."
"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."
"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."
"Self is a sea boundless and measureless."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"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."
"There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!"
"Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant."
"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."
"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."
"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."
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