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As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Criss Jami

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I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
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I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
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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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In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
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The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
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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 how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
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A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.
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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
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Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.
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I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
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I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
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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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We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
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If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
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At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
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Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
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Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
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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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