Quotes by Lebanese/Lebanon authors (page 2)

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"You have your ideology and I have mine"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"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, Poet

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"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, Poet

"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, Poet

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"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"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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Quotes by Lebanese authors