Yahia Lababidi Quotes

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A good listener is one who helps us overhear ourselves.

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I buried your face, someplace
by the side of the new road
so I would not trip over it
every morning or on evening strolls still, I am helplessly drawn
to the scene of this crime
for fear of forgetting
the sum of your splendor then there's also the rain
that loosens the soil
to reveal a bewitching feature
awash with emotion an eye, perhaps tender or
a pale, becalmed cheek
a mouth tight with reproach or
lips pursed in a deathless smile other times you are inscrutable
worse, is when I seem to lose you
and pick at the earth like a scab
frantic, and faithful, like a dog.

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Take two opposites, connect the dots, and you have a straight line.

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The thoughts we choose to act upon define us to others, the ones we do not define us to ourselves.

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One restless dawn, unable to suppress the itch
of wanderlust, with a heavy door left ajar
semi-deliberately, and a new light teasing in Some piece of immobility will finally quit
suddenly nimble on wooden limbs
as fast as a horse, fleeing the stable.

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Romantic: one who professes to prefer the thorns to the rose.

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Pleasure may be snatched from life's clenched fists, not joy

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To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session.

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Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.

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With enigmatic clarity, Life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question.

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In life, as in love, graceful leave-taking is the epitome of gratitude.

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Ambiguity: the bastard child of creativity and cowardice.

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To be treated with mercy, some must reveal their handicaps, while others must conceal them.

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Temptation: seeds we are forbidden to water, that are showered with rain.

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Truth can be like a large, bothersome fly – brush it away and it returns buzzing.

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Miracles are proud creatures; they will not reveal themselves to those who do not Believe.

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Impulses we attempt to strangle only develop stronger muscles.

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Like cars in an amusement park, our direction is often determined through collisions.

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