Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 8

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran
Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.
Kahlil Gibran
The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nassim Taleb
Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
Kahlil Gibran
Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
Kahlil Gibran
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?And is not time even as love is, undivided and spaceless?But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
Kahlil Gibran
There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.
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
Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran
If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.
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...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 oflove’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...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
My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.
Sam Wazan
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
The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even recognize my ideas as ideas at all: they seemed to be culled from somewhere else and did not belong to me. I did not know then what I am just beginning to know now: that my ideas were indeed mine, that I had reacted and changed and moved, that I had already analyzed and synthesized, rejecting some thoughts, adopting others, putting yet others away for a while to be thought on. I did not recognize how mentally active an individual I had become, already divorced from the world through my own thoughts, my own perceptions of right and wrong, of honour and justice, of what mattered and what did not. (2007: 117)
Jean Said Makdisi
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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 from 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. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Kahlil Gibran
After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
Kahlil Gibran
No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and the common.
Rami Ollaik
Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Kahlil Gibran
People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.
Kahlil Gibran
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty isin't judged by the size of your jeans.
Jack Barakat
The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.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.And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.You are the way and the wayfarers.And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.
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
Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.
Kahlil Gibran
Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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
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
The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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
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.
Kahlil Gibran