1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

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

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.