10 Quotes by Criss Jami about self
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Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.
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If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
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You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
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Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
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I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
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I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
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One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
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Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.
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The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
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