Top 100 Criss Jami Quotes
#1. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
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#5. Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
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#6. Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
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#9. The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
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#10. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
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#11. Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
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#12. Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
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#13. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.
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#14. 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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#15. In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.
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#16. Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.
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#19. Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.
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#20. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
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#21. The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.
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#22. 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.
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#23. The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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#24. The long-deluded will at last see the truth, and thus their expressions will have seen a ghost.
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#25. 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.
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#26. I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
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#27. The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.
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#29. Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.
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#30. Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.
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#31. To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.
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#32. Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'
I inquire, why
'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switch
Yeah make a way to face the music like
Life savings for a mosh pit riot
Listen to a mix
Rock the tickets, higher volume
Velocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot
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#33. A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
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#34. A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
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#37. I have a thing for things that last.
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#38. Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
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#39. The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
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#40. 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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#41. Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.
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#42. I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
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#43. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
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#44. When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
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#45. The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.
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#46. If you don't like the solution, change the problem.
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#47. When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
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#48. 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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#49. It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
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#50. 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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#51. God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
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#52. Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
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#53. When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
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#54. If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.
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#55. Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
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#56. The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.
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#57. From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset
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#58. Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions
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#59. Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.
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#60. It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.
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#61. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
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#64. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
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#65. They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.
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#66. To understand remotely the omnipotence of God is to understand wholly the beauty of Christ.
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#67. The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: 'Perfect love casts out fear.' However, it is very much rational for one to fear instead for the enemies of God.
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#68. 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?
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#69. 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.
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#70. Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
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#71. If I knew what to do
I'd do more than write a song for you
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#72. To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
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#73. Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
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#74. Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
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#75. 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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#76. A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
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#77. Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.
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#78. Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
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#79. Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.
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#80. I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
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#81. Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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#82. Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
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#85. Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
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#86. 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.
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#87. All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.
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#88. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
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#89. Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.
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#90. What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.
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#91. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
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#92. When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
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#93. If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
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#94. The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
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#95. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
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#96. The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
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#97. A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
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#98. I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
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#99. It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
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#100. All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively ... and then living it.
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