Criss Jami Quotes
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.
It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.