Criss Jami Quotes

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The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

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Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

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If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

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Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

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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.

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A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

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

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Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

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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.

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Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

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The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

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I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

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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.

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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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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?

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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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We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

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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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Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

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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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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

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People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

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Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

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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.

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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.

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I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

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