Quote

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.

Criss Jami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Criss Jami
Finding
Taught
Beauty
Asks
Often
Layman
Look
Philosopher
Looks
Photographer
Things
Findings

More quotes by Criss Jami

Image
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Criss Jami
Image
The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
Criss Jami
Image
Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
Criss Jami
Image
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.
Criss Jami
Image
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
Criss Jami
Image
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Criss Jami
Image
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
Criss Jami
Image
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
Criss Jami
Image
In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.
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
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
Criss Jami
Image
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
Criss Jami
Image
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
Criss Jami
Image
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.
Criss Jami
Image
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Criss Jami
Image
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
Criss Jami
Image
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.
Criss Jami
Image
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Criss Jami
Image
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Criss Jami
Image
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