Quotes from Criss Jami, Killosophy

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I have a thing for things that last.

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

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.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

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.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.