Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 12

Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
Kahlil Gibran
I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...
Kahlil Gibran
There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
Kahlil Gibran
Dream big, but stay humble.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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
To be the best you must be able to handle the worst.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil Gibran
All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.
Viken Berberian
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.
Rabih Alameddine
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.
Kahlil Gibran
Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself."But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
Kahlil Gibran
History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Anyone who is portraying Israel as a friend is a servant of Israel.I warn some sides against turning enemies into friends and friends into enemies.Some in the Arab world try to present "Israel" as a friend and Iran as a foe.Yet such conspiracies will fail. "Israel" has not been helping because of its hostile and aggressive nature. The Arab world is realising day after day that Iran is a friend, which was highlighted in Iran's support to Gaza and Lebanon.
Hassan Nasrallah
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
At the Harvard Symposium for Hard Problems in Social Science , Emily Osterpresented a very simple, elementary problem: almost all people with type-2diabetes who are overweight can be cured by losing a little bit of weight. They aremade aware of it, yet they usually gain weight a�er diagnosis (she mentioned"Atkins" among the options, so it was not just AMA low-fat.). It is so obvious thatwe know what to do yet do not carry the action because thinking can be largelyornamental. The proof of the sterility of (a significant class of) knowledgesterility of (a significant class of) knowledge was rightthere (among the obvious evidence that the population has been gaining weight inspire of technological and educational progress). Yet the others social scientistskept exalting the value of "education" in spite of this simple devastating evidence.Someone even suggested teaching more "critical thinking". This is the great suckerproblem: people who teach truly think that teaching, or, worse, preaching, cures.
Nassim Taleb
She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.
Rabih Alameddine
What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.
Rawi Hage
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
Kahlil Gibran
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
Kahlil Gibran
Our education system is today run by left-wing elitists who believe the US is too big, too arrogant, and must be reigned-in... Real sad.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Day is just a collection of hours.
Serj Tankian
Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Most of the barbaric and vicious acts of terror committed against innocent civilians around the world in the last thirty years have been done by Muslims. They have even carried out more bombings than the less-publicized Hindu Tamil Tiger separatists, who have committed more than two hundred suicide attacks in Sri Lanka. It is a fact that the nineteen terrorists who hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, were Muslims who practiced the teachings of the Koran and sought mental fortitude in its verses as their planes crashed.
Brigitte Gabriel
No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.
Amal El-Mohtar
My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.
Kahlil Gibran
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.
Kahlil Gibran
Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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.
Kahlil Gibran
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?
Ziad K. Abdelnour
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
Kahlil Gibran
To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95
Kahlil Gibran
Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
Sandra Chami Kassis
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.
Kahlil Gibran
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The school remained open. I thanked Allah that the Americans operated differently. Had the Lebanese lost 241 men in one day, and had we the power and the reach, we would have American males hung from their testicles and set on fire. The frame of mind that dictates our actions quashes our ability to develop the power and reach exhibited by the Americans, I thought.
Sam Wazan
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.
Amin Maalouf
Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.
Amin Maalouf
Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!
Sandra Chami Kassis
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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