Kojouri Quotes

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

~ Kamand Kojouri

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I think, therefore I am?No, I simply am.I am. I am. I am.I will still be if I didn't think. In fact, it is only then that I would step into a different dimension of consciousness.Yes, I will still be if I didn't think. I will still be if I stopped breathing. I will still be because you still are. My words are written and you are receiving them. We are dancing. We are making love.And when you stop reading them, they will still be because nothing ever truly ceases to exist. There is not a thing that is not. Every thought, energy, and vibration is recycled. I am and I will continue to be because I manifest as the universe, therefore I will continue to manifest as the universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Last night, I spoke to God.I told Him my plans. He started to cry.I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.He said that He was crying only becausemy plans were very differentthan His plans for me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.

~ Kamand Kojouri

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

~ Kamand Kojouri

They took my booksbecause my message was love.They took my penbecause my words were love.Then they took my voicebecause my song was love.Soon they’ll take myselfso nothing remains.But they don’t know that when I'm gonemy love will stay.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out.

~ Kamand Kojouri

For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

Love fills the infinite.

~ 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

My hours are filled with fantasy and indifference. In day and night dreams, I think of my heaven with you. All the time in between, I carelessly spend in hell without you.

~ 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

What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?

~ 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

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

~ Kamand Kojouri

My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Always ask yourself: What will happen if I say nothing?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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