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.

— Criss Jami

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

— 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

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

— Criss Jami

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darkness may stand.

— Criss Jami

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

— Criss Jami

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

— Criss Jami

You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.

— Criss Jami

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

— Criss Jami

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wondering of philosophy.

— Criss Jami