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#1

“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.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: art, artist, author, boat, books, bridge, bridge-quotes, canoe, connect, connection, creative-writing, creativity, expression, fiction, harmony, island, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kayak, kojouri, letters, lifeboat, limerick, literature, novelist, poem, poet, poetess, poetry, poetry-poem, poetry-quotes, rhyme, save, ship, spoken-word, stanza, swim, swimmer, swimming, unity, verse, vessel, water, water-is-life, water-quotes, waterfall, what-is-poetry, words, write, writer, writing, writing-quotes, written, yacht

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#2

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea

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#3

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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#4

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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#5

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women

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#6

“Not a believer in the mosque am I,
Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.
I am not the pure amongst the impure,
I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.

Not in the holy books am I,
Nor do I dwell in bhang or wine,
Nor do I live in a drunken haze,
Nor in sleep or waking known.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.

Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found.
I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground.
Not of water nor of land,
Nor am I in air or fire to be found.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.

Not an Arab nor Lahori,
Not a Hindi or Nagouri,
Nor a Muslim or Peshawari,
Not a Buddhist or a Christian.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.

Secrets of religion have I not unravelled,
I am not of Eve and Adam.
Neither still nor moving on,
I have not chosen my own name!
Bulleh, I know not who I am.

From first to last, I searched myself.
None other did I succeed in knowing.
Not some great thinker am I.
Who is standing in my shoes, alone?

Bulleh, I know not who I am.”
― Bulleh Shah

tags: adam, adam-and-eve, christian, eve, identity, know-who-you-are, moses, muslim, pashtun, pharoah, punjab, punjabi, religion, self, shoes, sufi, sufis, sufism

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#7

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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#8

“We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, enlightenment, fire, fire-quotes, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-wins, one-love, oneness, spark, sufi, sufism, togetherness, truth, union, unity

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#9

“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

tags: aware, awareness, be, consciousness, content, day, ephemera, ephemeral, fleeting, future, happy, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, let-go, life, merry, now, past, peace, power-of-now, presence, present, return, today, tomorrow, transient, truth

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#10

“We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, dance, dance-yoga, dancer, dancing, fall-in-love, flamenco, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, lover, loving, manifest, manifestation, quote, sama, sama-dance, seduce, seducer, seduction, sufi-whirling, tango, waltz, whirl, whirling, yoga, yoga-dance

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#11

“I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, couple, date, dating, disguise, facade, fall-in-love, fool, foolish, games, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, look, looking, love, love-games, love-quotes, lover, mask, one, play, player, quotes, relationships, search, seek, seeking, soulmate, together, trick, trickster, true, truth, wild

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#12

“What you choose also chooses you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: accept, adage, aphorism, axiom, choice, choose, choosing, chose, crave, decide, decision, desire, harmony, interesting, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, maxim, mysterious-ways, mystery, option, prefer, proverb, quote, saying, seek, select, selection, simple-quote, truth, unknown, want, you

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#13

“Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget yourself and be!”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: aware, awareness, awareness-quotes, be, become, beloved, conscious, consciousness, consciousness-quotes, dance, enjoy, feet, forget, hafez, hafiz, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, khayyam, kojouri, let-go, letting-go-quotes, life, live, living-in-the-now, love, lover, moment, music, present, rumi, saadi, sing, song, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, surrender, voice, yourself

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#14

“The best traveler is one without a camera.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: best, boundaries, camera, comfort, experience, explore, explorer, flight, hiker, inspiration, inspirational, journey, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, learn, life, moment, plane, pleasure, present, quote, travel, traveler, traveling, traveller, travelling, wander, wanderlust

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#15

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adage, always, aphorism, ask, calm, circumstance, everything, flow, forgive, give-in, happen, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, kojouri, let-go, maxim, mind, mindful, mindfulness, moment, nothing, peace, present, quote, rights, say, serene, serenity, silence, silent, simple-quotes, speak, surrender, talk, think, think-before-you-act, thought, tranquility, truth, unity, zen

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#16

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: advise, aid, alma-mater, assist, candle, coach, college, demonstrate, direct, edify, educate, education, educator, enlighten, enlightenment, fire, guide, help, helper, impart-knowledge, instruct, kamand, kamand-kojouri, knowledge, kojouri, light, mentor, prepare, school, schooling, show, teach, teacher, teacher-quotes, teaching, teaching-quotes, truth, tutor, university

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#17

“Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: be-good, be-kind, be-nice, break, cruel, cruelty, do-good, escape, good, goodness, greater, heart, heartbreaker, inspiration, inspirational, inspiring, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, kojouri, mouth, nice, niceness, quote, sin, sinful, word

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#18

“Chorizo, tomatoes and eggs Feeds three to four as a snack or just you if you’ve had a crappy day and are wondering what the point of it all really is. INGREDIENTS One medium onion, chopped 250g cooking chorizo, skinned (piquant or not, depending on taste) Two 400g tins of chopped tomatoes. Buy the expensive ones if it makes you feel better about yourself, but the cheap ones will do the job 200g grated cheddar 100g torn-up mozzarella Three eggs Bunch of coriander 200g jar of pickled jalapeños Heat the oven to 200°C. Gently fry the chopped onion in olive oil in a deep-sided frying pan until soft. Break the chorizo into thumbnail-sized nuggets and fry with the onion. When the chorizo is browned, add the tomatoes, mix all the ingredients together, turn down the heat and let it simmer gently on the hob for twenty minutes or so until almost all the liquid has been boiled off. Stir occasionally to stop it sticking to the bottom of the pan. Decant half the mixture into an oven-proof casserole dish. Cover with half the mixed cheese. Add the rest of the tomato and chorizo mixture and cover with the remaining cheese. Put in the oven and leave until the cheese has started to brown and the liquid around the edges is bubbling. Take the dish out of the oven and turn on the grill. Meanwhile, crack the three eggs across the top. Put under the grill for about five minutes or until the eggs are cooked through. Scatter with the coriander and the pickled jalapeños. Eat this by scooping with tortilla chips.”
― Jay Rayner, My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

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#19

“Buttered cabbage You have to like the taste of butter to enjoy this. Make sure to use a salted butter that you like on your toast. If it’s right for breakfast, it’s right for this. It takes about twenty-five minutes from start to finish. Serves four as a side dish INGREDIENTS Half a white cabbage 300ml stock (from cube, either vegetable or chicken, depending on whether you wish to keep it meat-free or not) 50g salted butter (double it if you fancy) Olive oil One clove of garlic (optional) Salt and pepper Remove the core of the cabbage and slice the rest up. You need to have reasonable-sized leaves a few centimetres across. Gently heat a tablespoon of the olive oil in a high-sided frying pan. After a minute or so, add the cabbage and move around to coat with the oil. Add the butter in two or three pieces. When it’s melted, stir the cabbage around to coat. Pour in 150ml of the stock, mix it all together, then turn the heat down so the liquid is on a gentle bubble. Don’t move the cabbage around. The liquid will thicken. When it has reduced down to a thick syrup, add another 150ml of the stock, stir and leave it to bubble away again. You want the leaves at the bottom to caramelise slightly in the reducing buttery liquor. At this point you can add slices of garlic to the broth, if you want to. When the liquor has thickened again, the cabbage will be done. Add a grind of black pepper. (Tip: a generous teaspoon of sesame oil will shift it a few thousand miles to the east.)”
― Jay Rayner, My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

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