Quote

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'.

Criss Jami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Criss Jami
Enough
Feet
Inspiration
Stars
Asks
Wrong
Foot
Bigs
Reaching
Inspirational
Starting
Doe
Already

More quotes by Criss Jami

Image
Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
Criss Jami
Image
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
Criss Jami
Image
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.
Criss Jami
Image
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
Criss Jami
Image
Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.
Criss Jami
Image
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes but so is longing to be envied.
Criss Jami
Image
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.
Criss Jami
Image
Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
Criss Jami
Image
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
Criss Jami
Image
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
Criss Jami
Image
God tests, but he does not tempt.
Criss Jami
Image
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Criss Jami
Image
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
Criss Jami
Image
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
Criss Jami
Image
Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.
Criss Jami
Image
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
Criss Jami
Image
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
Criss Jami
Image
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
Criss Jami
Image
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Criss Jami
Image
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.
Criss Jami