Top 180 Kamand Kojouri Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You have made me a love poet.”

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152. “Remember to forget yourself.”

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153. “Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.”

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154. “Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love.”

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155. “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.”

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156. “I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.”

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

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158. “Truth is unoriginal.”

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

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160. “Love is the most integral function of our lives. That is why LOVE is only one letter away from LIVE.”

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161. “All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.”

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162. “She placed her hand on her chest and thought, ‘So this is what the poets write about’.”

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163. “Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”

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164. “Sadness is an invitation to God.”

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165. “You’ll only know the answers once you love.”

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166. “Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our relation to people and things. They aim for control because ownership falsely promises us an elevated sense of self. But this is exactly the opposite of love. When we fall in love, we disidentify and get lost for a little while in a song, a beautiful painting, and most of all, we get lost in our lover. And through their love, we find our true infinite selves.”

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167. “People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.”

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168. “No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.”

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169. “If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.”

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170. “Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?”

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171. “Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why.”

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172. “If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.”

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173. “The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.”

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174. “Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it.”

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175. “There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.”

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176. “Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.”

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177. “Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight.”

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178. “Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”

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179. “A man’s shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman’s shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.”

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180. “I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.”

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181. “With you, I am. Without you, I am not.”

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182. “Break open your heart so that I may enter it.”

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183. “If on any given day you don’t cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.”

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184. “I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.”

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185. “Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.”

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186. “Knowing you, I understood myself.”

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187. “Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.”

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188. “The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life.”

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189. “God begets love.”

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190. “A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You’re essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.”

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191. “How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.”

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