Kamand Kojouri

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

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

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

“We all wear masksto veil the truth.Truth is nakedness.Truth is fear.Truth is the gardener making you sit on his lapasking you tolight his cigarette.Truth is father— with a limp cigarette on his lips —telling you to never use his matches to light it for him.Truth is father yelling:"It is not nice for little girls to do so”.Truth is a curious girlwanting to ignite a matchlike a woman.Truth is the maid watching from the kitchen,knowing.But knowing isn’t truth.Truth is the maid calling:Come. Come.Truth is the gardener understanding. But understanding isn’t truth.Truth is the maid saying,"Stay away!"Truth is a girl thinking she is in control.That nothing happened, nothing bad.But the truest truthis a girl knowing, a girl understanding thaton that daysomeone stole a little piece of her truth.”

“Love fills the infinite.”

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

“Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.”

“Come into my world. I will show you the phenomenon that Stendhal experienced. I will help you feel the cascading arpeggios of Wagner's overture. I will dance to Doga’s waltzes with you. A day spent without appreciating the beauty surrounding us is a waste. Let me appreciate you”

“We don’t find Godin temples and cathedrals.We don’t find Himby standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a pew.God appears when welove someone other than ourselves.And we continue to feel His presence when we do good for others.Because God is not foundin mosques and synagogues.He resides in ourhearts.”

“Do the lovers know that when they whisper these poems they are commemorating our love?Do they ever think of you and meor only of themselves?Do they know that I once found a strand of your hairand wore it around my necklike a necklace?That I kiss your handsmore than I kiss your lips?Do they realise that our love and their love are drops in the universe’s ocean of loveand that without any of these drops, the ocean would be less?”

“You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.”

“Your love brought me closer to God.”

“Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you.”

“I write to understand what I know.”

“Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.”

“I am humbled by the grace of God.I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.Humbled by others' kindness.Humbled by life.I drop down to my knees and give thanks.”

“Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.”

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

“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”

“I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone, I will be a fraction but the common denominator has always been me.”