Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life.

— Debasish Mridha

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

— Mark Doty

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

— Kamand Kojouri

Birth our night into Dayan bathe it clean, So that beloved things can glow Together in a litter of light.

— Scott Hastie

Break opens your heart so that I may enter it.

— Kamand Kojouri

Butterflies better understand than you, the meaning of love and sacrifices one must make for their beloved.

— M.F. Moonzajer

By loving you, I learn everything because your soul contains the entire universe.

— Kamand Kojouri

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

— Pablo Neruda

Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see? Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear? Can you perch on my shoulders so you can go where I go? Always in my heart, I don’t experience anything separate from you. This shared wonderment becomes doubled. This shared love becomes infinite.

— Kamand Kojouri

Come back to me. Where have you gone? And why so long? I miss the star below your lip, the constellation on your chest. I miss your ways, how you net butter-flying words and release them for others to enjoy. I miss your tenderness, the sweetness of your breath and the song of your voice. I miss how you worship me. Come back to me once more. Why did you go? And whatever for? The heavens plotted against us. The clouds came and pissed on our lives. The smell of charged particles still lingers in the air. What will become of you and I? Come back to us.

— Kamand Kojouri