158 Quotes by Lebanese authors

Lebanese quotes carry a mingled salt of the Mediterranean and the resin of mountain pines, tender, stubborn, and quick with wit. They speak of homes rebuilt and tables extended, of mothers’ proverbs tucked into pockets, of love that thrives amid alleys and terraces. Voices cross confessions and centuries, from mystics and poets to taxi drivers, trading melancholy for a smile in the same breath. Expect aphorisms that prize dignity, generosity, memory, and the restless hope that keeps Beirut’s lights humming after dusk.

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"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"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

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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"In the 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, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: 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, Poet

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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"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

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"But 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"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"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

Small: Kahlil Gibran

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Small: Kahlil Gibran

"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

Small: Kahlil Gibran

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