Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 2

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
Kahlil Gibran
One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation.
Kahlil Gibran
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
Kahlil Gibran
Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.
Rabih Alameddine
We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.
Rabih Alameddine
Day is just a collection of hours.
Serj Tankian
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
Kahlil Gibran
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
Kahlil Gibran
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Kahlil Gibran
We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil Gibran
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
Kahlil Gibran
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
Sandra Chami Kassis
You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.
Kahlil Gibran
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Nido Qubein
A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
Kahlil Gibran
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran
You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Whatever you do, do it with purpose. Being focused is not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud of. When you know what are you are doing and have a clear vision of where you are going, you will not need to chase opportunities. Opportunities will seek you. Happiness will chase you. And, instead of being a choice, you will be the one choosing.
Najwa Zebian
Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that’s what counts.
Rawi Hage
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
Kahlil Gibran
The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.
Rabih Alameddine
I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
Kahlil Gibran
You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
It's not how long you live somewhere that makes it home. Home is a feeling here, (she tapped on the chest). That you belong somewhere and somewhere belongs to you. But i will tell you a secret. Some people don't feel they belong anywhere. No matter where they are, they are always unhappy. They go from place to place trying to find peace. And usually they find themselves back where they started.
Claire Hajaj
Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century
Samer Chidiac
Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
Kahlil Gibran
The eye always fills in the imperfections.
Rabih Alameddine
Live Everyday with No Regrets, So you don't Regret it One day.
Samer Chidiac
Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Made you the subject of my dreams, I was always the first to hear your screams. Haven't you had enough of all these schemes? Re-run all the scenes...Haven't you noticed we're being a bit too extreme? I know not everything is as it seems, but aren't you tired of floating downstream?
Dalal Gebara
You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.
Amin Maalouf
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran
In the dark , everything is scary
Sandra Chami Kassis
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.
Kahlil Gibran
Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.
Samer Chidiac
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.
Amin Maalouf