rationalize

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

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.

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.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we__e in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that__ not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

His intelligence was just something he'd been born with. Luck of the draw, like being beautiful. It was a rationalization to say that he'd worked hard. It was like being given a fine knife and taking the trouble to polish and sharpen it: it's great that you make the effort, but someone had to give you the knife.

Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.

Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.

I paved the path to the very place I don__ want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn__ put me any place else.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

You can dress up greed, but you can__ stop the stench.

...you__ be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

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.

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I__e effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I__e actually imprinted it in indelible ink.