Kamand Kojouri

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

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

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

Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn__ make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly.

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

Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?

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.

To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing.

It doesn__ matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.

Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.

My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

I don__ want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf__, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway__. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci__. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I__ like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?

The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.

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__ 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.