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#1

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#2

“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, choice, couple, door, doorstep, ego, enter, give-in, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, leave, let-go, love, love-quotes, lover, relationship, relationship-quotes, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, sufism, surrender, transcend, transcendence

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#3

“Sit here,
so I may write
you into a poem
and make you
eternal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: always, author, brief, compose, endure, enduring, ephemera, ephemeral, eternal, eternity, fleeting, forever, here, immortal, immortality, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lasting, living, momentary, mortal, novelist, passing, permanence, permanent, perpetual, poem, poet, poetess, poetry, poetry-quotes, read, reader, reading, recite, short, sit, temporary, transient, transitory, write, writer, writing, writing-quotes

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#4

“Come, friends.
Come with your grief.
Come with your loss.
Carry all the pieces of your heart
and come sit with us.
Bring your disappointments
and your failures.
Bring your betrayals
and your masks.
We welcome you no matter
where you come from
and what you bring.
Come and join us
at the intersection of
acceptance and forgiveness
where you will find our
house of love.
Bring your empty cups
and we will have a feast.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#5

“Autumn is my favourite season of all. It is a transitory period that allows the earth to rest before it sees the harshness of winter and hears the promise of spring.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#6

“I haven’t written you a poem in years it seems.
How can it be my fault
when 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 grows
by the time I reach for pen and paper?
Tell me how I am at fault
when I am only a beginner in poems
and you are exquisite poetry?
To write you in words
is to put a veil upon you.
Why must I write
when I can kiss you instead?”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: alphabet, awareness, consciousness, create, describe, experience, fault, harmony, humanity, inspirational, joy, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kiss, kojouri, letters, love, love-poem, loveliness, lover, oneness, paper, pen, pleasure, poem, poetry, quote, sharing, truth, union, unity, veil, words, world, write, written

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#7

“Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: accept, accepted, beloved, harmony, heart, home, inclusion, inspiration, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, loved, lover, peace, poem, quote, safe, travel, truth, unity

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#8

“I spent all night
weaving a poem for you
to wear. You look so beautiful
when you wear my light.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beautiful, beauty, beloved, boyfriend, encourage, friend, girlfriend, harmony, husband, illuminate, in-love, inspiration, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, light, love, love-is-love, love-movement, love-poems, love-poetry, love-quotes, love-wins, lover, night, one-love, partner, poem, poet, poetess, poetry, poetry-quotes, positive, positivity, relationship, short-love-poems, short-poems, soul, soulmate, spend, spouse, sufi, sufism, union, unity, uplift, wear, weave, weaver, weaving, wife, write, writer, writing

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#9

“I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and singing with rapture.
There is not a thing I do not love.
There is not a person I have not forgiven.
I feel a universe of love.
I feel a universe of light.
Tonight, I am with old friends
and we are returning home.
The moon is our witness.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: abandon, afterlife, bereavement, celebrate, celebration, dance, dancing, death, death-poems, deceased, departure, drunk, dying, end, eternal, eternal-rest, eulogy, fate, forgive, forgiven, friends, funeral, harmony, heaven, home, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, light, living, love, moon, night, paradise, passing, rapture, rebirth, reborn, return-home, reunion, sing, singing, stars, swallowed, truth, union, unity, universe, witness

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#10

“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: dishonest, flaw, flaws, gossip, honest, honesty, kind, kindness, liar, lie, lies, news, other, others, ourselves, quote, reveal, rumor, rumors, rumour, rumours, scandal, self, slander, speak, talk, true, truth, white-lie

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#11

“Happiness, do not leave me.
I know you, a capricious monarch
perching on the fortunate flowers you see.
Hear me:
I am too attached to this royalty now.
Can I make you rest here somehow?
I will offer you the nectar of every flower in blossom,
the honey of every fruit in harvest.
I will make the Earth a garden,
the entire universe a forest.
I beg of you not to flutter by.
I beg of you not to leave me, butter-coloured fly.
Nest here
and for you,
I will create a home.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#12

“Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky.
Last night was different.
I missed you so much
and my yearning was so powerful
that I sprouted wings like a phoenix
and soared to reach you.
And now I finally understand:
if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry.
Surely, love has metamorphosed them.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: arms, bird, dream, flap, flying, flying-dreams, glide, high, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lift, love, love-poems, love-quotes, metamorphose, metamorphosis, miss, night, phoenix, powerful, reach, roof, sky, soar, sprout, transform, transformation, transformative, understand, wings, yearn, yearning

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#13

“Isn’t it strange that
in order to be happy
we have to ignore
all the sadness in the world
at that moment? That we
have to forget the ballooned
bellies of children that are dark
and empty inside. That not too far
from our homes, women sleep on
cardboard and are grateful for the
bitter wind because at least it’s not
rain. That there are teenagers
taught to avoid eye contact
so their fingers are quicker on the trigger
but whose nightmares eventually compel them
to pull the trigger on themselves. That there
are battered dogs with skin taut like a drum,
ribs jutting out, their eyes so beautiful
it makes all the men cry.
Isn’t it strange that in order to be happy
we have to unremember a lot of
what we already know?
Yet,
I still don’t believe that sadness is our
natural disposition. Because there is
so much to be done. So many to help.
Maybe we aren’t meant to be happy
in spite of all the sadness.
Maybe,
it is a call for us to help others
overcome it.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#14

“The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: attract, attraction, augment, balance, better, boyfriend, burden, burdened, companion, complement, dating, dating-quotes, energies, energy, girlfriend, harmonize, harmony, husband, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-quotes, loved, lover, loving, opposite, opposites, opposites-attract, ourself, ourselves, partner, personalities, personality, quote, reason, relationship, salvation, save, saviour, type, union, unity, wife, yin-and-yang

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#15

“Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adapt, change, comfort, comfort-zone, concept, define, definition, edge, expand, expanding, experience, experiment, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, learn, life, life-quotes, new, newness, philosophy, reach, transform, transformation, transformative, travel, travel-quotes, truth, universe

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#16

“If I can’t be your love,
then let me be a simple brooch
so I may rest a while against your chest.
If I can’t be your love,
then let me be a forgotten coin
so I may rest a while against your thigh.
If I can’t be your love,
then let me be an unlit cigarette
so I may rest a while in between your lips.
If I can’t be your love,
then let me at least remain in these words
so I may rest a while in your thoughts.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: always, apart, beloved, boyfriend, brooch, chest, cigarette, coin, cute-poems, desire, doom, doomed, forever, forgotten, girlfriend, harmony, husband, in-love, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lips, love, love-is-love, love-movement, love-poems, love-quotes, love-revolution, love-wins, loved-one, lover, lovers, lust, mate, miss, missing, one-love, oneness, partner, passion, poem, rest, separate, short-love-poems, soul, soulmate, thigh, thoughts, together, togetherness, wife, words

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#17

“I searched everywhere for love.
I knocked on every door
and turned over every stone.
But it was only until I returned home
that I found love
waiting for me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#18

“Tell me where the swans go in the winter
I need to know if the mute ones can sing.

Tell me why stars fall from the sky
I need to know if it is luck they bring.

Tell me why feathers land near you
I need to know if you've injured your wing.

Now, tell me where you end, my angel
For I no longer know where I begin.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: angel, falling-in-love, feather, in-love, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-poem, love-quote, lover, loving, luck, mate, me-and-you, mute, partner, poem, quote, relationship, sing, sky, soulmate, stars, swan, together, union, unity, wing, winter, you-and-i, you-and-me

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#19

“The first time I heard you laugh,
I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always be laughing.
You know what happens to chocolate
when you leave it out in the sun?
I’m that unfortunate chocolate
and you, you are the laughing sun.
For this reason, I am offering myself to you
not as a martyr or some selfless fool,
but as a self-indulgent moth
who actively pursues the light
without much fear for the flame.
The moth who revels in the heat
and declares:
Burn me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adoration, affection, ardor, beloved, blaze, boyfriend, burn, captivate, chocolate, crave, crush, cute-poems, declares, desire, fear, first, first-time, flame, fool, funny, girlfriend, heat, husband, in-love, infatuate, infatuated, infatuation, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, laugh, laughing, laughter, laughter-poems, light, love, love-poems, love-quotes, love-revolution, love-wins, loved-one, lover, loving, lust, martyr, mate, moth, offer, one-love, partner, passion, pursue, pursues, pursuit, self-indulgent, selfish, selfless, soul, soulmate, sufi, sufism, sun, union, unity, valentine, valentines, wife, yearn

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#20

“Everything I have become,
everything I will ever accomplish
cannot compare to my most
impressive feat:
I have loved you
fiercely
and
assiduously
with the very marrow
inside my bones. So that when I die,
they can crack them to find
you there. So that when I die,
they can open me up
and see your name tattooed
on the wall of my heart.
So that when I die,
my epitaph will neither
commemorate
who I was
nor what I did,
but will read:
“She loved.
And loved. And
loved.”
And so,
I smile now,
because
that is no
small thing.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: accomplish, assiduous, bones, boyfriend, chest, commemorate, crack, death, die, epitaph, fall-in-love, feat, fierce, flesh, girlfriend, heart, husband, impressive, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-poem, love-quote, loved, lover, loving, marrow, name, partner, poetry, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic-poem, smile, soul, soulmate, spouse, sweetheart, tattoo, wife

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#21

“Embrace contradictions
for they make up
all of life:
You will eternally be
looking for yourself and
seeking ways to lose yourself.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: accept, acceptance, acknowledge, balance, character, consciousness, contradiction-quotes, contradictions, contradictory, contrary, different, ego, embrace, eternal, eternally, existence, find, find-yourself, forget, found, give-in, identity, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, let-go, life, life-quotes, look, looking, lose, lose-yourself, lost, make, oppose, opposites, opposition, paradox, remember, search, searching, seek, seeking, self, surrender, truth, yin-and-yang, yin-yang, yourself

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#22

“Until you see beauty everywhere,
in every face,
until then,
you are blind.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: awakening, aware, awareness, beautiful, beauty, beauty-quotes, blind, blindness, conscious, consciousness, everybody, everyone, everywhere, face, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, perceive, perception, perspective, see, sight, transcend, transcendence, ugliness, ugly, until, vision

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#23

“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: bliss, calm, content, ecstasy, euphoria, forget, forgetting, happiness, happiness-quotes, heaven, ignorance, ignorance-quotes, ignore, joy, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, meditate, meditation, memory, others, peace, pure, rapture, remember, satisfied, self-forgetful, self-forgetfulness, tranquility, transcend, transcendence

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#24

“You have to be transparent
so you no longer cast a shadow
but instead let the light pass through you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: authentic, authenticity, cast, forthright, honest, honesty, integrity, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, light, opaque, pass, shadow, translucent, transparency, transparent, truth, truthful, truthfulness, veracity

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#25

“He tried to measure his day
by tallying the hours on his wrist.
I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.
He placed the hours on a scale
with hours from former days to compare.
I took a hammer and broke it all.
He bent down and picked up the
shards of minutes first
then swept the seconds.
I told him he’d missed a spot;
there were some sparkling specks left.
'What are they?' he asked.
'Those are moments,' I said.
'What are they made of?' he asked.
They are times, I thought, when you win a race
or win a heart.
They are times when you give birth
or lay something, someone to rest.
When you wake up in the morning
with a smile because anything is possible.
When someone compliments the thing
you hate most about yourself.
Times when you are embarrassed.
Times when you are hurtful.
Times when you relish in a hearty meal.
Times when you service others and
are content with a well-spent day.
'What are they made of?' he asked again.
'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'
I picked up one of the specks with the tip
of my finger.
'Do you remember this?' I asked.
'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen
that morning.'
'Why?' I asked.
'Because of the knowledge
that I was loved.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: birth, broke, compare, compliment, content, cute, day, embarrass, former, hammer, heart, hours, hurtful, inspiration, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lesson, love, love-poem, loving, meal, measure, minutes, moments, morning, place, possible, present, prisoner, prose, quote, race, scale, seconds, service, speck, spot, tally, times, whistle, win, wipe, wisdom, wrist

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#26

“Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adoration, adore, affirm, alive, appearance, appreciate, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, blemish, body, endurance, faults, flaw, hope, human, inspirational-quote, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kiss, kojouri, life, life-affirmation, life-affirming, like, lingering, living, love, love-yourself, man, mark, natural, never-give-up, past, perseverance, physical, pure, quote, reason, scar, spot, survive, survivor, truth, woman, wound

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#27

“First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: character, characteristics, create, creating, destroy, destroying, ego, experience, facade, first, give-in, identity, illusion, jung, jungian, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, let-go, life, life-quotes, mask, meaning, meaning-of-life, perception, personality, perspective, possessions, pride, psyche, psychology, reality, self, simple, subjective, surrender, truth

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#28

“Think the tree that bears nutrition:
though the fruits are picked,
the plant maintains fruition.
So give all the love you have.
Do not hold any in reserve.
What is given is not lost; it shall return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: all-you-need-is-love, fruit, fruition, give, giving, harmony, in-love, inspiration, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, keep-loving, kojouri, lost, love, love-is-all-you-need, love-poem, love-quote, loved, lover, loving, maintain, nutrition, plant, poem, quote, relationship, reserve, return, trees

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#29

“I write our names on the page.
What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names in the sand.
What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?
I write our names on trees that will be cut
and benches that will be painted,
but what of it?
I will keep on writing our names
because in this world of ephemera,
You and I are the only constant.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, bench, boyfriend, burn, burned, change, constant, cut, date, destined, destiny, emphemeral, ephemera, fate, girlfriend, husband, inspiration, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-is-all-you-need, love-poem, love-poems, love-quotes, loved, lover, loving, name, ocean, one-love, page, paint, paper, poem, poetry, quote, relationship, romance, sand, sea, shore, soulmate, together, trees, wash, waves, what-of-it, wife, world, write, writer, writing, you-and-i, you-and-me

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#30

“Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, cosmic, earth, encourage, enlighten, foster, harmony, healthy-relationship, help, illuminate, illumine, in-love, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, light, light-quotes, love, love-quotes, lover, loving, moon, nature, nourish, positive, relationship, relationship-quotes, share, shared, sharing, sharing-quotes, sky, strengthen, sun, support, sustain, together, togetherness, union, unity, universe

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