One Love Quotes

Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything

~ Kamand Kojouri

The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You do not have to be beautiful.You do not even have to be intelligent.All you have to do is practice kindness,for that is our purpose.

~ 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

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

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

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

~ 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

I've written you sixty-seven love poems.Here’s another one for you.But really, for me.These poems are the candles that I light with the fire you have ignited in me.I place this candle here and another thereso even if the stars have argued with the moonand are sulking away in a corner, you can still find your way to me.Sixty-eight poems now. What does the future hold for us?Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect?I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more. For what is the point of loveif by lighting these candlesour own flame loses its brightness?I know the good is more than the bad. Much more.I cannot wait to write you sixty-nine.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Break open your heart so that I may enter it.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, we are separated from God, from each other. All we want, all we yearn for is to connect.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Do the lovers know that when they whisper these poems they are commemorating our love?Do they ever think of you and meor only of themselves?Do they know that I once found a strand of your hairand wore it around my necklike a necklace?That I kiss your handsmore than I kiss your lips?Do they realise that our love and their love are drops in the universe’s ocean of loveand that without any of these drops, the ocean would be less?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don’t experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Lovers dream of one more embrace.One more kiss.One act of love, no matter how small.For in loving, lover and belovedemptied themselves.Now, they look for their oasislike men engulfed in flames.Even filled to the brim, they will never satiate. For they continue to leak, thesecracked vessels.How else did love seep through?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Either You see GOD in all or You don't see GOD at all.

~ Jaspreet Jhoja

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I can only be me.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

~ Kamand Kojouri

One Life is about realizing there's no second chances in this one life that we were given to live. So we need to be thankful for all we have. Work hard for what we want and love one another no matter the difference.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.

~ Suzy Kassem

One race,Many cultures,One place.

~ Geoffrey M. Gluckman