Best Criss Jami Quotations
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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…
Brain
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The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,…
Abating
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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.
Climb
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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Aggravated
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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.
Broken
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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Becomes
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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…
Actually Saved
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It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Easier
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The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have…
Country
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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…
Absolutely
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When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Credit
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It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies…
Advantage
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Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This…
Designed
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For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
Appearing
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The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is…
All
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Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
Built
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The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Biggest
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I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
Challenge
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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Affirmation
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It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
Ability
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It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
Always Seemed
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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…
Absence
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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…
Deny
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Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Entails
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Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
Cosmos
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