Ameen Rihani Quotes - Page 2

• I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

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  Perseverance, Want, Faces

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• I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

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  Government, Soul, Mind

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• I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

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  Philosophy, Airplane, East

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• No podemos entendernos, si cada vez que nos aventuramos nos clavamos la pluma de la gallardía en la gorra. No, nunca podremos entendernos del todo, y elevarnos al menos al nivel de la estima mutua, si no invertimos en ese sentimiento de compañerismo que triunfa sobre la clase y el credo y la raza y el color.

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  Color, Class, Race

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• No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .

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  Boundaries, Breasts, No Boundaries

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.380, Syracuse University Press

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• Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

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  Years, Repeats, Seasons

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• At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

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  New York, Heart, Paris

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• Si yo fuera capaz de ayudar a alguien, lo haría de forma que la persona que busca ayuda trabajara, para que se ayude a sí misma.

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  Causes, Persons, Ifs

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• I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

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  Balance, Matter, Bigs

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

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• The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

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  Rights, Individual, Form

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• If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

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  Spiritual, People, Inspire

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• What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

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  Triumph, Defeat, What Is Life

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• A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

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  War, Golf, Play

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• True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

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  Home, Order, Giving

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.67, Syracuse University Press

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• In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

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  Lakes, Light, Mankind

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• An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

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  Thinking, Sea, Pyramids

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

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  Men, Training, Matter

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• We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

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  Shells, Path, Academic

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• Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

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  Errors, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

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  Keys, Tolerance, Mind

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• The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

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  Perseverance, Spirit, Clear

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• The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

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  Goal, Common, Aspects Of Life

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• We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

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  Sublime, Unity, Deeds

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• True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

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  Two, Mind, Body

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• ... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

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  Thinking, Europe, Ideas

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

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