Criss Jami Quotes - Page 14

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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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  Heart, People, Guy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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• There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.

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  Spring, Issues, Judging

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.63, Criss Jami

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• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

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  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

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  Believe, Past, Generations

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

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  Our Generation, Generations

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

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  Thinking, Judging, Humanity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.118, Criss Jami

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• 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.

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  Bullying, People, Rejection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.131, Criss Jami

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• 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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  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

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  Cosmos, Genius, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• 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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  Air, Would Be, Strange

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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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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  Pain, Men, Tragedy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

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  Men, Idols

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

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  Inspirational, Optimistic, Positivity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

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  Mouths, Physics, Shouting

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

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  Running, Men, Long

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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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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  Misunderstood, Genius, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.74, Criss Jami

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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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  Reality, Thinking, Islands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

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  People, Creative, Mediocrity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

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  Thinking, Air, Speaks Out

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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  Character, Angel, Writing

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.158, Criss Jami

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• 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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  Beautiful, Mistake, Mean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• 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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  Stupid, Intelligent, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.109, Criss Jami

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• There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

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  Christian, Men, Faithful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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

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  Fighting, Understanding, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.79, Criss Jami

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