Quotes from Criss Jami, Killosophy

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

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

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.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!