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Criss Jami Inspirational Quotes (238)

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Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
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Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.
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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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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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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
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Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
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To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
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To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.
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To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
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Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
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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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To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
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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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It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
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One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
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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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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
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Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
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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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I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.
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A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
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