Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.”

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302. “Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.”

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303. “Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”

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304. “One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn’t care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.”

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305. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”

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306. “When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.”

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307. “The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.”

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311. “One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”

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312. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”

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313. “Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.’”

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314. “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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315. “Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don’t argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.”

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316. “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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317. “When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as ‘too good to be true.’ They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.”

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318. “Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.”

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319. “The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.”

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320. “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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321. “As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it’s only evident that they’re learning from you. Maybe you taste bad – kind of like medicine, kind of like truth – and to them, you’re thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.”

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322. “What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”

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323. “I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.”

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324. “Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: ‘I must stop him before he stops me.’ In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.”

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325. “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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326. “Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.”

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327. “Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

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328. “All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”

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329. “When you’re truly awesome, you know that it’s actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.”

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330. “It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

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331. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.”

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332. “Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”

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333. “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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334. “What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.”

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335. “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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336. “Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.”

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

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338. “There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...”

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339. “I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.”

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340. “God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.”

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341. “Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It’s rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.”

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342. “You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can’t have more than you have until you do better than you’re doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can’t do better than you’re doing until you can have more than you have.”

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343. “Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.”

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344. “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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345. “Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.”

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346. “Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.”

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347. “Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

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348. “One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.”

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349. “Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.”

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350. “Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.”

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