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Bread Givers

by Anzia Yezierska

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Feb 13, 2018 11:28AM

“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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“Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: buddhism, destiny, fall-in-love, falling-in-love, fate, in-love, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kismet, kojouri, life, lives, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quote, lover, past, past-life, rebirth, reincarnation, sight, soul, soulmate

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“So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

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“To love is to think.
And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.
I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her.
I have a great animated distraction.
When I want to meet her,
I almost feel like not meeting her,
So I don’t have to leave her afterwards.
And I prefer thinking about her, because it’s like I’m afraid of her.
I don’t know what I want at all, and I don’t want to know what I want. All I want to do is think about her.
I’m asking nothing of nobody, not even her, except to think.”
― Alberto Caeiro, O Pastor Amoroso

tags: ambivalence, complexity, confusion, emotion, fallen-in-love, longing, love, paganis, pantheism, thinking, truth, wanting

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“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: all-is-water, aqua, art, burial, bury, clean, cleanse, creek, dead, death, drop, droplet, energy, essence, faith, funeral, island, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lake, life, live, living, mist, mortality, ocean, philosophy, pool, purify, quote, rain, rainwater, religion, renew, resurrect, resurrection, return, river, sea, seas, shalt, soul, spirit, stream, thou, vapour, water, water-is-life, waterway

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