Quotes by Lebanese Authors

The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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?
Kahlil Gibran
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy
Kahlil Gibran
It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.
Kahlil Gibran
After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.
Rami Ollaik
I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
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.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For god is Light, and Light alone is able to know Light.
Mikhail Naimy
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.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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.
Kahlil Gibran
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
Serj Tankian
Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
Kahlil Gibran
That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Life is about execution rather than purpose.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall.
Rabih Alameddine
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward,
Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone’s faces.
Rawi Hage
Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.
Gad Saad
Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.
Amin Maalouf
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.
Kahlil Gibran
Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential
Samer Chidiac
If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality, if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.
Dalal Gebara
If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran
Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
Kahlil Gibran
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
Don't be afraid of books, even the most dissident, seemingly 'immoral' ones. Culture is a sure bet in life, whether high, low, eclectic, pop, ancient or modern. And I am convinced that reading is one of the most important tools of liberation that any human being, and a contemporary Arab woman in particular, can exploit. I am not saying it is the ONLY tool, especially with all the new alternative - more visual, interactive and hasty - ways of knowledge, learning and growth. But how could I not be convinced of literature's power, when it has been my original emancipator?
Joumana Haddad
Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.
Kahlil Gibran
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
Kahlil Gibran
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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.
Kahlil Gibran