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#1

“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
― Alysha Speer

tags: afraid, brave, cry, frolick, heart, kiss, laugh, life, live, remember, run, sing, sleep, smile, trust, twirl

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#2

“Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: conviction, dignity, genuine, honesty, integrity, private, public, secrecy, sincerity, test

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#3

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
― Criss Jami

tags: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth

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#4

“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: cool, courage, experience, fool, glamorous, lifestyle, misunderstood, original, pioneers, rebels, risk, standing-out, take-a-stand

441 likes

#5

“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bad-people, brain, cognition, compassion, comprehension, development, empathy, good, good-people, misunderstanding, misunderstood, perspective, psychology, sympathy, understanding

426 likes

#6

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accomplishment, achievement, adversity, anger, climbing, encouragement, falling, heart, inspirational, motivational, perseverance, persistence, strength, success, try-again

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#7

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: art, battle, belief, conversation, creativity, expression, opinions, self-expression, speech, speechless

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#8

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: alone, art, author, blessed, boredom, company, contemplate, contentment, creativity, curse, good-company, growth, hard-work, imagination, independent, loneliness, perseverance, reflection, self-sufficient, solitude, time, writer

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#9

“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: artists, deep-thoughts, digging, enjoyment, learning, metaphorical, pain, poet, scenery, strength-through-adversity, unstoppable, writing

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#10

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: accusation, assumption, bias, blame, extroversion, extroverts, fear, guilt, innocence, introversion, introverts, judgment, judgmental, judgmentality, people, skepticism, social-norms, society, unconscious-mind

301 likes

#11

“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth

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#12

“It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: articulate, belief, challenging, disagreements, enemies, honesty, opinion, opposition, stand-out, truth

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#13

“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

#14

“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: complex, creative, different, difficulties, distinction, envy, genius, genius-distinction, independent, independent-thought, inferiority, inferiority-complex, intimidating, misunderstanding, odd, privacy, self-sufficiency, simplicity, superiority

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#15

“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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#16

“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: above-and-beyond, assurance, certainty, concealment, confidence, foolishness, humility, intelligence, philosophy, pretentiousness, profound, self-assurance, theory, within

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#17

“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: awkward, creative, creativity, disagreeable, envy, intimidating, intimidation, mediocre, mediocrity, misunderstood, odd, original, originality, outcast, peculiar, strange, unusual

267 likes

#18

“You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: appreciation, difficulties, disobedience, disrespect, humor, knucklehead, love, moms, mother, motherly-love, mothers-day, obedience, rebellion, respect, strength, tolerance, unconditional, unconditional-love

219 likes

#19

“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: cancer, deceit, gossip, introvert, libel, lie, loner, masses, propaganda, rumor, slander, social, truth

225 likes

#20

“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: clever, courage, courageous, crazy, death, definition, hero, heroes, heroic, heroism, inspirational, life, living, living-life-to-the-fullest, motivational, soldier, stand, stand-out, success, warrior, winning

212 likes

#21

“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: age, confidence, critic, insecurity, knowing-who-you-are, maturity, mentality, perception, self-awareness, self-image, understanding

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#22

“I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: agenda, apologetics, atrocities, belief, bias, biases, blame, confusion, crime, denial, dream, free-will, god, hypocrisy, imprisonment, mother, rhetorical, scrutiny, self-interest, skepticism, son, uncertainty

212 likes

#23

“Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: boldness, courage, creativity, detrimental, free-thinker, individuality, persecution, rejection, ridicule, risks, well-being

170 likes

#24

“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: accusations, allies, belief, believing, connection, discernment, doubt, enemies, faithfulness, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, friendships-and-love, guilt, haters, honesty, innocence, judgment, love, love-and-friendship, loyalty, misunderstood, opposition, questions, relationship, sincerity, skepticism, suspicion, trust, trusting, truth, understanding

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#25

“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arrogance, body-language, business, cocky, communication, egotism, hate, inferiority, insult, nonexistent, offensive, pride, selfish, silence-communication, superiority

168 likes

#26

“It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: afraid, being-strong, burden, discernment, fear, guilt, insecure, insecurity, judgment, secrecy, secure, security, strength, strength-and-courage, strength-of-character, uncertainty

174 likes

#27

“To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: beauvoir, creed, emotion, et-cetera, fighting-for-truth, independence, joan-of-arc, love, meaning, monotony, passion, princess-leia, purpose, sacrifice, stowe, strength, xena

160 likes

#28

“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

#29

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: alone, companionship, extroversion, fear, introversion, loneliness, shyness, solitude

144 likes

#30

“Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: appeasers, change, determination, honesty, mind, offense, opinion, perseverance, right, truth, wrong

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