Quotes by Lebanese Authors

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.
Mikhail Naimy
There's a 'me' in every 'you'.
Sandra Chami Kassis
Always Remember... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
Rabih Alameddine
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran
Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.
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
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
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
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran
Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?
Kahlil Gibran
The things you do for yourself are gone when you're gone, but the things you do for others become legacy.What do you wanna be remembered as?
Ziad K. Abdelnour
All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.
Rawi Hage
My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
Sandra Chami Kassis
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.
Kahlil Gibran
I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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
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
Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.
Gad Saad
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Kahlil Gibran