Quotes by Lebanese authors

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

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

"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death"

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth"

"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"

"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"

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

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work"

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

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary"

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge"

"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"

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

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be"

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

"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"

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

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

"You have your ideology and I have mine"

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

"All that spirits desire, spirits attain"

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

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

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

"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?"

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

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

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

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper"

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