Criss Jami
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.Collection: Water
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.Collection: Glowing
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.Collection: Business
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.Collection: Wise
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.Collection: Children
If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.Collection: Eye
There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Sacrifice
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.Collection: Reality
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.Collection: Fashion
Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.Collection: Names
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.Collection: Ideas
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.Collection: People
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.Collection: Pride
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.Collection: Motivational
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.Collection: Perspective
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.Collection: Fall
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.Collection: Art
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?Collection: Princess
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.Collection: Greatness
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.Collection: Believe
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.Collection: Men
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.Collection: Life
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.Collection: Artist
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.Collection: Waiting
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.Collection: Father
It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.Collection: Finding Yourself
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.Collection: Intelligent
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.Collection: Sides
Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.Collection: Ambition
As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.Collection: Ambition
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.Collection: Brain
In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.Collection: Christian
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.Collection: Envy
I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.Collection: Funny
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.Collection: Patience
I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.Collection: Winning
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.Collection: Impact
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.Collection: Would Be
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.Collection: Children
Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.Collection: Stars
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.Collection: Skills
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Heart
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.Collection: Strong
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.Collection: Feelings
The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.Collection: Artist
Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.Collection: Beautiful