“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.”

Kamand Kojouri

“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

“It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.”

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

“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

“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

“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.”

Kamand Kojouri

“May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.”

Kamand Kojouri