Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
– Criss Jami
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- Every island to a child is a treasure island. – PD James
- What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? – Wyndham Lewis
- Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
- Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
- A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you’re the one writing it. – Julie Wright
- In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you. – Israelmore Ayivor
- For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame. – Anonymous
- You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy. – Criss Jami
- If you assume that the new – and simply because it’s new – is always to be better than the old, chances are you’ve never known anything valuable. – Criss Jami
- To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. – Criss Jami
- You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house. – Criss Jami
- Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food. – Criss Jami
- God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy’s lies. – Criss Jami
- Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all. – Criss Jami
- Law without reason is criminal. – Criss Jami
- Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete. – Criss Jami
- Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. – Criss Jami
- Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse. – Criss Jami
- God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you? – Criss Jami
- 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. – Criss Jami
- There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus. – Criss Jami
- You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. – Criss Jami
- No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t. – Criss Jami
- The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
- Self-awareness – the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else. – Criss Jami
- Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it. – Criss Jami
- We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. – Criss Jami
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- Every tree is known by its fruits. So a man is known his deeds. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. – Tom Stoppard
- The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). – Dada Bhagwan
- I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me. – Pippa DaCosta
- He should have known. She was the only wanna be immortal he’d ever known. – Beth Bares
- If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you. – Sadghuru
- Moon and earth is the longest known stable love affair known to man kind – Danny Maximus
- Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them. – Pseudonymous Bosch