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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.Criss Jami
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When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.Criss Jami
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A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.Criss Jami
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With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.Criss Jami
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You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.Criss Jami
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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.Criss Jami
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If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.Criss Jami
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From time to time I once wondered how one wanders from time to time And think up the paradox line Speak of Epoch's crime Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet But bet you better believe it's such a habit that I just said that in a past mindsetCriss Jami
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Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness.Criss Jami
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Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.Criss Jami
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When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.Criss Jami
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A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificial And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but There's not where it settles Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle And now we face it, this creation we made to To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation In our steampunk nation Our steampunk nation .Criss Jami
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I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.Criss Jami
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Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever beenCriss Jami
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You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well I value words like I value kisses A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart Darling it's how it mends itCriss Jami
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When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.Criss Jami
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It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one that really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one which we so adamantly try to shut ourselves off from. .Criss Jami
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Have nuts and be nuts.Criss Jami
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I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.Criss Jami
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.Criss Jami
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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
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Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.Criss Jami
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I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it trulyCriss Jami
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Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.Criss Jami
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Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.Criss Jami
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It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.Criss Jami
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If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.Criss Jami
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Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.Criss Jami
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A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.Criss Jami
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The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.Criss Jami
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The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.Criss Jami
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Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.Criss Jami
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Lead's erasing then vanishing Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasyCriss Jami
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I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.Criss Jami
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Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who love under God dream of another life where they can experience it and live it in God's perfect form, so they seek to build it in this life as much as possible.Criss Jami
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The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.Criss Jami
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The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.Criss Jami
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The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.Criss Jami
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When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.Criss Jami