Kamand Kojouri Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

3. I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

4. I open my eyes. I want to know:what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in these black caves that house bated breaths and unspoken words? Do our souls crawl on these tender cheeks to greet one another by ivory gates? What happens when we kiss?Where do you go?Don’t tell me. For I have lost my desire to know. Kiss me so that I forget myself. I close my eyes and fall in the abyss.

5. 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.

6. Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.

7. 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.

8. We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

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

10. What you choose also chooses you.

11. When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.

12. You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

13. Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.

14. For me,you are fresh waterthat falls from treeswhen it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers on the tongue and givesbitter wordssweetening.For me, you are the scent of violins and visionof valleys smiling.And still,for me, your loveliness never ends.It traverses the worldand finds its way back to me.Only me.

15. Here's another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn't anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me, then you’re the best part.And if you're separate from me, then you are my destination.But I’ve become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart.

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

17. I do not write about love as if I have invented it. I write about love because thoughts of you inspire self-forgetfulness. And because writing about you gives birth to a star. These stars sit inside me where there was once darkness.

18. I left the bankbecause they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems.So I went to the store,but they didn’t acceptmy currency of words.So I boxed all my storiesand took them to charity.But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead.I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

19. I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

20. I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it.

21. I will look for you in every lifetime and love you there.

22. I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.

23. I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

24. It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

25. Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.

26. Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

27. My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.

28. Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

29. Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

30. Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.