Top 180 Kamand Kojouri Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “A purposeful life is the most important thing in the world. And love is the most important purpose of all.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “As long as you’re not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “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.”

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106. “The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.”

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107. “Last night, I repeated your name like a mantra before falling asleep. Somehow the simple pleasure of uttering your name, and the added pleasure of hearing your name was heaven for me and I didn’t go to bed until dawn. Isn’t it odd how your name, a single word associated with you, can bring another person such joy that they inflict insomnia upon themselves and call it a blessing?”

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

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

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110. “Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same.”

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

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112. “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.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.”

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

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116. “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.”

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117. “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.”

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

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119. “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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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129. “Prejudice is an act of violence.”

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

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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.”

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

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

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134. “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.”

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135. “Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly.”

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

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137. “For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something – distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world – but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.”

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138. “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.”

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

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

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141. “Life is short; love is longer.”

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

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

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

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

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146. “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.”

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

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148. “Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn’t worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.”

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149. “God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another.”

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150. “You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.”

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