Top 180 Kamand Kojouri Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?”

— Kamand Kojouri

102. “I began missing you even before we met.”

— Kamand Kojouri

103. “Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

104. “Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.”

— Kamand Kojouri

105. “Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

106. “A purposeful life is the most important thing in the world. And love is the most important purpose of all.”

— Kamand Kojouri

107. “If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.”

— Kamand Kojouri

108. “Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.”

— Kamand Kojouri

109. “We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make us feel. And because they have granted us this extraordinary gift – a chance to experience love, joy, compassion, and security – it is our exclusive privilege to make them feel wonderful about themselves, especially during days when they, themselves, don’t feel so wonderful.”

— Kamand Kojouri

110. “It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.”

— Kamand Kojouri

111. “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.”

— Kamand Kojouri

112. “She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.”

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Kamand Kojouri

114. “If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

— Kamand Kojouri

115. “Be still, and know that I will always love you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

116. “The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.”

— Kamand Kojouri

117. “Don’t worry if you don’t accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing – even the very thing that tried to kill us.”

— Kamand Kojouri

118. “You have brought me back to myself.”

— Kamand Kojouri

119. “Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love.”

— Kamand Kojouri

120. “A soulmate is a direct pathway to God.”

— Kamand Kojouri

121. “I write to understand what I know.”

— Kamand Kojouri

122. “You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.”

— Kamand Kojouri

123. “Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.”

— Kamand Kojouri

124. “You are my favourite part of life.”

— Kamand Kojouri

125. “Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back.”

— Kamand Kojouri

126. “I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.”

— Kamand Kojouri

127. “Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

128. “Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.”

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Kamand Kojouri

130. “Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.”

— Kamand Kojouri

131. “You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.”

— Kamand Kojouri

132. “Life is short; love is longer.”

— Kamand Kojouri

133. “Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.”

— Kamand Kojouri

134. “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

135. “For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?”

— Kamand Kojouri

136. “You think I’m giving up. I’m not. I’m giving in.”

— Kamand Kojouri

137. “Prejudice is an act of violence.”

— Kamand Kojouri

138. “To be wise means to know when to stay silent.”

— Kamand Kojouri

139. “Remember to forget yourself.”

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140. “If you can love one person, you can love everyone.”

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141. “Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid.”

— Kamand Kojouri

142. “You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.”

— Kamand Kojouri

143. “Love is the only reason that is reason enough.”

— Kamand Kojouri

144. “Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?”

— Kamand Kojouri

145. “Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.”

— Kamand Kojouri

146. “Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.”

— Kamand Kojouri

147. “Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.”

— Kamand Kojouri

148. “I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, ’how was I living before this?”

— Kamand Kojouri

149. “Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

150. “When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.”

— Kamand Kojouri