Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your…

“The barriers we face in life are so often the ones we create in our minds. As a child I couldn’t open that wooden…

— Leanne Waters

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

— Daniel Goleman

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not…

— Anthony Greenwald

“We are to give up all our sins, big or small, for the Father’s reward of eternal life. We are to forget self-justifying stories,…

— Robert C. Gay

“For, while selflessness is the law, to belittle self is a form of selfishness and not selfless. But putting the ideal in that which…

— Edgar Cayce

“I wasn’t a nice guy.  Getting evidence of infidelity for people seeking a divorce or leverage against their partner were my bread and butter. …

— kimber nilsson

Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior…

— Cleve Jones

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about…

— Jon Stewart

“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's…

— Phillip Lopate

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important…

— Aron Ralston

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a…

— K. D. Lang

“All this entrapment is due to the impediment called the egoism. Because of the hook of ‘egoism’, when the engine moves, it also pulls…

— Dada Bhagwan

Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For some it…

— Dolores Cannon

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize…

— Ma Jian

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb