Criss Jami

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

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.