Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 8

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
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.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
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
Rabih Alameddine
...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.
Amin Maalouf
One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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
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
There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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 erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
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
May Love, Joy and Abundance Rain on Every Being in the World.
Emmanuel Dagher
Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me
Kahlil Gibran
Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.
Kahlil Gibran
Self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Kahlil Gibran
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Nido Qubein
Just like going to the moon made us learn more about earth, achieving your goals will make you learn more about yourself and get fascinated.
Samer Chidiac
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
And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying: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.And it is well that you should.The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;and the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Kahlil Gibran
Do what feel is right, and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live,
Jack Barakat
So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
Mikhail Naimy
The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.
Mikhail Naimy
I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.
Rabih Alameddine
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.
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
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Kahlil Gibran
Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
Amin Maalouf
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse
Kahlil Gibran
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
To belittle, you have to be little.
Kahlil Gibran
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Kahlil Gibran
The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?
Rawi Hage
I loved him not, yet I did not hate Him. I listened to Him not to hear His words but rather he sound of His voice; for His voice pleased me. All that He said was vague to my mind, but the music thereof was clear to my ear. Indeed were it not for what others have said to me of His teaching, I should not have known even so much as whether He was with Judea or against it.
Kahlil Gibran
In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think of him my memory's eyes have cataracts.
Rabih Alameddine
Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.
Rabih Alameddine
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran
The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
Rabih Alameddine
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
Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Dream big, but stay humble.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Once you find your dream, risk everything to make it come true.
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
Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does
Ziad K. Abdelnour