{"quotes":[{"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":"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":"Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.","author":"Kartik Mehta","tags":["enjoy","fetal","life","luck","rationalize"],"id":121337,"author_id":"Kartik+Mehta"},{"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":"To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["deceive","deceived","denial","deny","excuse","excuses","ignorance","ignore","immovable","indelible","ink","justification","justify","life","permanence","permanent","rationalization","rationalize","story","story-of-life"],"id":164841,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["belief","beliefs","maintain-a-belief","make-exceptions","note-to-self","qualify","rationalize","scrutiny","turn-a-blind-eye"],"id":237880,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["adjust","distortions","god","justifications","justify","lies","modify","rationalize","tampering","truth","truthfulness"],"id":246750,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ed","blame","blaming","chart","charted","consequence","create","created","designed","destination","justification","justify","location","path","pave","paved","projecting","rationalization","rationalize","result"],"id":321802,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["disguise","ego","egocentric","fake","fraud","fraudulent","greed","greedy","justification","justify","narcissist","narcissistic","odor","odors","rationalize","self-centered","selfish","selfishness","smell","stench","stink","stinky"],"id":324812,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}