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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