Criss Jami Quotes: 151

• To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

  Venus in Arms

• The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

• Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

• Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

• Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

  Killosophy

• When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

  Killosophy

• If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

  Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

• At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

  Killosophy

• A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

  Killosophy

• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Killosophy

• The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

  Killosophy

• Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

  Killosophy

• 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.

  Killosophy

• 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.

  Venus in Arms

• The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

  Killosophy

• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Killosophy

• Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

  Venus in Arms

• It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

  Killosophy

• Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

  Killosophy

• I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

  Killosophy

• A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

  Killosophy

• You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

  Killosophy

• Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

  Venus in Arms

• A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

  Killosophy

• To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

  Venus in Arms

• Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

  Venus in Arms

• In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

  Venus in Arms

• I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

  Killosophy

• To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

  Killosophy

• There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

  Killosophy

• I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

  Killosophy

• It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

  Killosophy

• I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

  Killosophy

• Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

  Killosophy

• The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

  Killosophy

• There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

  Killosophy

• 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.

  Killosophy

• As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  Killosophy

• I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

  Killosophy

• Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

  Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

• God tests, but he does not tempt.

  Killosophy

• Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.

  Killosophy

• Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

  Killosophy

• Create with the heart; build with the mind.

  Killosophy

• You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

  Killosophy

• With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

  Venus in Arms

• The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

  Venus in Arms

• Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

  Killosophy

• One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.

  Killosophy

• It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

  Killosophy

• The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

  Killosophy

• Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

  Killosophy

• Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

  Killosophy

• Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

  Killosophy

• God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

  Killosophy

• The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

  Killosophy

• Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

  Killosophy

• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Killosophy

• When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

  Killosophy

• In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

  Venus in Arms

• The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

  Killosophy

• Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

  Killosophy

• It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.

  Killosophy

• The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.

  Killosophy

• Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

  Killosophy

• I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

  Killosophy

• We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

  Killosophy

• The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

  Killosophy

• Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

  Killosophy

• Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

  Killosophy

• Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

  Killosophy

• Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

  Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

• To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

  Killosophy

• Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.

  Killosophy

• It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

  Killosophy

• Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

  Killosophy

• Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

  Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

• Old words are reborn with new faces.

  Killosophy

• Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

  Killosophy

• 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.

  Killosophy

• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Killosophy

• Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

  Killosophy

• In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

  Killosophy

• I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

  Killosophy

• Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

  Venus in Arms

• 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.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• 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.

  Killosophy

• Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

  Venus in Arms

• One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

  Killosophy

• A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.

  Killosophy

• It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

  Killosophy

• A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

  Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

• Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

  Killosophy

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