Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.”

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304. “You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.”

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305. “God’s relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.”

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306. “The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.”

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307. “Pure wisdom is the ‘fruit of life’; banal platitudes are the ‘bane of existence’.”

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308. “When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you’ve spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can’t help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.”

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

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311. “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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312. “Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.”

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.”

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

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

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “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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323. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”

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

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

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

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

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.”

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337. “The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.”

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338. “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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339. “That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.”

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340. “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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341. “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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342. “What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”

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

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345. “Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it... and even more to live it.”

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

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

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349. “Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.”

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350. “Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

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