Criss Jami, Healology Quotes
One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.
The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.
To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.
To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.
This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.
Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.
Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.
Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.
A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.
God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?
On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.
While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.
Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.
God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.
The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.