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

Kamand Kojouri

“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.”

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

“Beauty is the manifestation of love.”

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

“Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal in the first place because they put you up there.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Moments of suffering are meant to empty us so that we may have the potential to tap into our truest depths.”

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

“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