“That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.”
— Criss Jami
“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”
— Criss Jami
“One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we’re all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we’re all different. It’s usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn’t mean it’s right and a benefit to other people.”
— Criss Jami
“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
“Chance is your godThough you’re falling free you will land hard”
— Criss Jami
“Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.”
— Criss Jami
“A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”
— Criss Jami
“Normality is the new eccentric.”
— Criss Jami
“Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.”
— Criss Jami
“Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one’s conscience both clear and at ease.”
— Criss Jami
“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”
— Criss Jami
“The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.”
— Criss Jami
“Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.”
— Criss Jami
“By(e) pen, I’ve tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.”
— Criss Jami
“An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.”
— Criss Jami
“Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”
— Criss Jami
“When focusing only on one’s credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”
— Criss Jami
“Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”
— Criss Jami
“It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.”
— Criss Jami
“The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.”
— Criss Jami
“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”
— Criss Jami
“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.”
— Criss Jami
“I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.”
— Criss Jami
“Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended.”
— Criss Jami
“I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.”
— Criss Jami
“Is the phrase ‘pay’ or ‘play the piper’I inquire, why’Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock the tickets, higher volumeVelocity which shakes a cockpit’s pilot”
— Criss Jami
“Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.”
— Criss Jami
“Genius – the pursuit of madness.”
— Criss Jami
“To merely blank the page and vaguely assume that ‘religion’ is the cause of all the world’s problems is, on the contrary, an allegation brought about by nothing more than cognitive lethargy; it is when unburied, unpacked, and exposed but a stale conclusion and a misdirection for the one overwhelmed by centuries of sound theology, scholarly thought, and spiritual development.”
— Criss Jami
“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.”
— Criss Jami