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#1

“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: fresh-start, new-beginning, new-life, new-year, youthfulness

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#2

“When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bias, class, discernment, disrespect, equality, geniune, human-being, person, rank, respect, righteous, status, stereotype, title

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#3

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: achieve, achievement, achieving, ambition, goals, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspiring, life, lifestyle, living, meaning, motivate, motivating, motivation, motivational, purpose, purpose-in-life, reason, reason-to-breathe, reason-to-live, sacrifice, success, successful-living

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#4

“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: beast, confidence, confident, determination, dragon, dragons, faith, fantasy, fighting, fighting-battles, head, hydra, inspirational, motivational, mythological, mythology, perseverance, self, self-confidence, self-confident, serpent

193 likes

#5

“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: excellence, greatness, legacy, power, revenge, righteousness, seek, vengeance, victory

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#6

“It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: finding-yourself, individuality, purpose, recovery, redemption, special

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#7

“Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: difficulties, love, marvelous, passion, people, serious, true-love, unconditional, unconditional-love, understanding, undeserving

96 likes

#8

“God tests, but he does not tempt.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: apologetics, challenge, faith, god, sincere, temptation, test

70 likes

#9

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accidents, adversity, artist, craftiness, craftsmanship, crafty, creativity, disaster, envy, hardships, illness, imperfections, loneliness, lyrics, pain, perspective, poetry, poets, sadness, suffering, tragedy, wit, words

289 likes

#10

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: art, artist, connection, humanity, inspirational, life, lyrics, music, musician, poetry, song-lyrics, songs, songwriting, truth, world

96 likes

#11

“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: copying, copyright, copyright-infringement, creativity, credit, envy, helping-others, honesty, originality, plagiarism, pleasure, selfishness, skill, support, talent, wit

169 likes

#12

“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: animals, authority, beast, boldness, conquering, courage, courage-in-life, fierceness, inspirational, lion, man, nobility, noble, strength, uniqueness

127 likes

#13

“There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: child, children, contagious, contagiousness, funny, humor, innocence, innocent, kid, kids, kids-funny, laugh, laughing, laughter, mischief, mischievous, rascal, suspicion, suspicious, young, youth

179 likes

#14

“Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: complementary, equality, life, love, meaning, men, relationships, rescue, women

52 likes

#15

“Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: agnosticism, atheism, believable, convincing, doubt, faith, honesty, inspiration, life, memorable, questioning, questions, realism, realistic, storytelling, theism, writing

82 likes

#16

“It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arrogance, development, emotions, experiment, fame, growth, humility, improvement, learning, life, peace, popularity, pride, science, training

92 likes

#17

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: academics, achievement, athletes, athletics, competition, confidence, enemies, enemies-and-opposition, fighting, improvement, mirrors, opposition, practice, practicing, pressure, reality, rivals, scrambling, searching, self, self-esteem, sports, striving, struggling, training, winning

161 likes

#18

“Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accomplish, achievement, care, conquering, dignity, handling, inspirational, motivational, prosper, soaring, success, wit

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#19

“We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: affection, conversation, curiosity, fascination, females, funny, funny-but-true, humor, intrigue, males, men, mystery, nuts, punch-line, punchline, relationships, sense-of-humor, understanding, women, wondering

56 likes

#20

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: antagonism, antagonistic, discernment, foolishness, insecure, insecurity, judgment, jump, manliness, masculinity, needless, pacifism, pacifist, patience, prudence, reason, retaliation, self-control, virtue, wisdom, wise, wise-man

83 likes

#21

“In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: apparel, clothing, culture, economy, expense, fashion, fashion-industry, industry, money, price, retro

46 likes

#22

“Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: conformity, cool, coolness, fool, independence, individuality, nonconformity, originality, skill, talent, trends

98 likes

#23

“The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: brain, communciation-skills, communication, difficult, funny, funny-but-true, humor, men, relationships, thinking, thought-process, understanding, women

42 likes

#24

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: artist, building, construction, creativity, development, drawing, feeling, heart, mind, musician, originality, painting, poet, productivity, thinking

194 likes

#25

“Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: awareness, confidence, denial, denying, denying-self, differences, distinction, evolve, mistakes, pride

80 likes

#26

“Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: blank, college, confirmation, confirmed, development, education, exam, experimentation, fill-in-the-blank, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, learning, risk, school, study, test, wisdom

43 likes

#27

“I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: belief, crying, evolution, faith, funny, humor, science, short-temper, successor

23 likes

#28

“Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: development, humility, information, knowledge, learning, letting-go, pride, simplicity, understanding, wisdom

47 likes

#29

“Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: acknowledge, arrogance, ego, humility, paradox, pride

69 likes

#30

“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accessibility, complication, genius, intelligence, practicality, practicality-for-intellectuals, roles, simplicity, substance

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