Quotes from Kamand Kojouri

You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.

We live only for the hope of love.

I am looking for the one I can't fool.

The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for — death?

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.

The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death.

If love weighs you downand casts a shadow on your lifethen it isn't love.Love is light and makes you light.

Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.

Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don't want to die for love. I want to live for it.

If you can love one person, you can love everyone.

What happens when I love, you ask, does the world start making sense? No, my dear, it does not. But it won't matter to you then.

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

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

Life is a concept, like the "universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.