Top 10 Most Famous Criss Jami Quotes
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.
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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.
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There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.
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To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told… and have a sense of humor doing it.
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To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
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Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
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Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
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Inspirational Criss Jami Quotes About Life
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.
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As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.
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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
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When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.
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When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
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If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.
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It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
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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.
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Criss Jami Quotes That Will Make You Think
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
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When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
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At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.
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When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
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When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
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The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret.
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Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
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One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
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True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
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Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
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Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
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The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
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Criss Jami Quotes on Love and Relationships
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.
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If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
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Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
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Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
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More Criss Jami Quotes
A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
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When we find that God’s ways always coincide with our own ways, it’s time to question who we’re really worshipping, God or ourselves.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Create with the heart; build with the mind.
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Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
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If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.
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You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.
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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.
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The introvert’s anthem for not wanting to hang out is ‘It’s not you; it’s me.
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If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
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Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
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Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
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What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
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The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.
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A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
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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
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I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
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Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
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To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it’s always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.
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Your love is as stable as you are.
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Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth.
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Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.
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