Experience Quotes

Missing you,I missed a part of meI shared with you that’s now gone.Missing you, when really, it was the way you made me feeland the things you made us do.Missing you I shouldn’t be.But I can’t help missing who I was with you.Missing you,I missed and missed so much of the world and wasn’t even missed in return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I haven’t written you a poem in years it seems.How can it be my faultwhen the words to describe you have not yet been created?When the alphabet lacks the very letters?How can it be my fault when your loveliness only growsby the time I reach for pen and paper?Tell me how I am at faultwhen I am only a beginner in poemsand you are exquisite poetry?To write you in words is to put a veil upon you.Why must I writewhen I can kiss you instead?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times. You have captured my heart. It is yours. I am at your mercy now

~ Kamand Kojouri

Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite.

~ Kamand Kojouri

They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you

~ Kamand Kojouri

Extremities are flawed. Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.So damn these eyes that weep too much.This mind that thinks too much. But never this heart that loves too much.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why

~ Kamand Kojouri

Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.

~ Kamand Kojouri

People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.’ And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness.

~ John Irving

When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

~ Rebecca Solnit

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

~ Ouida

Thinking well of others, praying for them may or may not change them, but you will, for sure, experience peace and love.

~ Latika Teotia

Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for the peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You touched my heart by your kindness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The gentleness of your action touched my heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

~ Gillian Duce

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To begin again, every failure provides experience and opens the door of opportunity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

~ P.d. James

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would’ve discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.

~ Rick Riordan

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.

~ Criss Jami

One should show one's scars, not hide them.

~ Marty Rubin

Why should I forget the pastexperience? I can only let go of the pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why should I forget the past experienced? I can only let go of the pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why should I forget the past experience? I can only let go of the pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

You can read all the books in the world on the Nazi concentration camps and the gas chambers, and yet reality will draw upon you only when you are put through that yourself. It is a law of God, or nature, if you prefer, that pain, suffering and grief cannot be transferred or known by proxy. Neither empathy nor sympathy but experience alone is a valid currency of affliction. It alone makes you a card-holding member all allows you to join the club of the wretched of the earth. All else is counterfeit.

~ Kiran Nagarkar

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell.

~ Kemi Sogunle

But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Every sensation makes a person who they are. Even pain.

~ Gaja J. Kos

When experience is bought by pain, it teaches.

~ Unknown

You suffer alone. And rejoice with many.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita