Quotes by Iranian Authors - Page 9

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
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
To understand and be understood is to be at peace
Kamand Kojouri
Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times. You have captured my heart. It is yours. I am at your mercy now
Kamand Kojouri
Missing you,I missed a part of meI shared with you that’s now gone.Missing you, when really, it was the way you made me feeland the things you made us do.Missing you I shouldn’t be.But I can’t help missing who I was with you.Missing you,I missed and missed so much of the world and wasn’t even missed in return.
Kamand Kojouri
Love fills the infinite.
Kamand Kojouri
Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out.
Kamand Kojouri
For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?
Kamand Kojouri
Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin.
Kamand Kojouri
They took my booksbecause my message was love.They took my penbecause my words were love.Then they took my voicebecause my song was love.Soon they’ll take myselfso nothing remains.But they don’t know that when I'm gonemy love will stay.
Kamand Kojouri
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.
Kamand Kojouri
You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.
Kamand Kojouri
Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.
Kamand Kojouri
You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.
Daniel Nayeri
On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
When it was all overthe centuries startedto roll by and history was writtenby thosewith no storiesmisery turned into myth and figures of speech played catalyst to happiness
Bänoo Zan
Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.
Daniel Nayeri
One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history
Ervand Abrahamian
Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.
Daniel Nayeri
Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.
Daniel Nayeri
To be wise means to know when to stay silent.
Kamand Kojouri
Last night, I spoke to God.I told Him my plans. He started to cry.I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.He said that He was crying only becausemy plans were very differentthan His plans for me.
Kamand Kojouri
First Embody the Emptiness of SilenceNext Embody the Fullness of Honesty & LoveThus Be HeavenSage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH...
Omid Mankoo
I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.
Marjane Satrapi
I think, therefore I am?No, I simply am.I am. I am. I am.I will still be if I didn't think. In fact, it is only then that I would step into a different dimension of consciousness.Yes, I will still be if I didn't think. I will still be if I stopped breathing. I will still be because you still are. My words are written and you are receiving them. We are dancing. We are making love.And when you stop reading them, they will still be because nothing ever truly ceases to exist. There is not a thing that is not. Every thought, energy, and vibration is recycled. I am and I will continue to be because I manifest as the universe, therefore I will continue to manifest as the universe.
Kamand Kojouri
Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
Kamand Kojouri
For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.
Kamand Kojouri
Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.
Kamand Kojouri
I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?
Kamand Kojouri
Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.
Kamand Kojouri
She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.
Kamand Kojouri
Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.
Kamand Kojouri
We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.
Kamand Kojouri
These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!
Kamand Kojouri
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
Shahin Najafi
It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.
Kamand Kojouri
There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.
Kamand Kojouri
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.
Kamand Kojouri
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.
Kamand Kojouri
Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.
Kamand Kojouri
Just as when we step into a mosque and its high open dome leads our minds up , up , to greater things , so a great carpet seeks to do the same under the feet .Such a carpet directs us to the magnificence of the infinite , veiled , yet never near , closer than the pulse of jugular , the sunburst that explodes at the center of a carpet signals this boundless radiance . Flowers and trees evoke the pleasures of paradise, and there is always a spot at the center of the carpet that brings calm to the heart. A single white lotus flower floats in a turquoise pool , and in this tiniest of details, there it is : a call to the best within , summoning us to the joy of union .in carpets , I now saw not just intricacies of nature and color , not just mastery of space , but a sign of the infinite design . In each pattern lay the work of a weaver of the world, complete and whole ; and in each knot of daily existence lay mine .
Anita Amirrezvani
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A leader must stand up for his team even when he has to stand alone.
Farshad Asl
Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion.
Farshad Asl
Leaders are called upon to build not to repair.
Farshad Asl
As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower.
Farshad Asl
The ‘No Excuses’ mindset is not only composed of net worth, but also self worth and network.
Farshad Asl
Leadership is influencing others through modeling.
Farshad Asl
Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless.
Farshad Asl
Leadership is the art of intentional living.
Farshad Asl
Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.
Farshad Asl
Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference.
Farshad Asl
True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.
Farshad Asl
Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.
Farshad Asl
True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.
Farshad Asl
A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
Simplicity is the language of leadership.
Farshad Asl
Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love.
Farshad Asl
When your leadership and legacy are built on love, obstacles are overcome through love’s fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love’s values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love’s endurance.
Farshad Asl
You can’t lead without love, and more importantly, you can’t leave a legacy without love.
Farshad Asl