{"quotes":[{"text":"I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.","author":"Daniel Willey","tags":["family","inspirational","justification","justify","kids","stress","summer","vacation","work","working"],"id":10527,"author_id":"Daniel+Willey"},{"text":"You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["appeals","criminals","justify","law","pass","rule","stupid-reasoning","tyranny"],"id":33757,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.","author":"Cathy Burnham Martin","tags":["apologies","apology","forgiveness","justification","justify","love","men","partner","rationalize","responsibility","truth","women"],"id":37309,"author_id":"Cathy+Burnham+Martin"},{"text":"The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["cynical","doubters","enthusiasm-and-attitude","find-answers","give-meaning","hopeful","hopeless","influence","justify","logic","negative-and-positive","optimist","outcomes","outlook-in-life","pessimist","point-of-view","reasons-why","shit-happens","views","visonary"],"id":86420,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","agenda","god","justification","justify","manipulate","manipulation","misperception","perception","reject","rejection"],"id":98564,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["believe","justify","logic","reasons"],"id":101497,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["dark","darkness","direction","excuse","excuses","god","hope","illuminate","illumination","justification","justify","light","quit","quitter","quitting","rationalization","rationalize"],"id":105316,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["agenda","cliff","compass","danger","dangerous","destination","direction","ego-centric","fall","falling","greed","greedy","guide","justification","justify","legitimize","map","north","rationalization","rationalize","risk","self","self-centered","selfishness","stupid","stupidity","true-north","wisdom","wise","wise-up"],"id":150062,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["denial","deny","ignorance","ignore","justification","justify","life","live","living","rationalize"],"id":152189,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["acceptance","alone","appear-pleasant","blame","deceive","defend","depressed","example","excuses","fake","false-happiness","fool-oneself","free","happy","hopeless","justify","loneliness","no-choice","not-blaming","not-real","people","reality","reason","sad","single-life","singless","sugarcoat","whitewash"],"id":153959,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}