1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

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

If you don't like the solution, change the problem.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

Law without reason is criminal.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.