Justify Quotes

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What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to… — Ernest Becker
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some… — Edward Gibbon
He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments. — Neal Shusterman
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest… — Paulo Coelho
You cannot force the Now. â€” But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never… — Bruce Lee
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may… — Aaron Allston
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. Godâ€™s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to… — John Piper
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be… — Michael Sandel
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. — Glen Duncan
Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my… — Carrie Fisher
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick… — Neil Gaiman
there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin
Now you know how I justify my addictionsâ€”if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it. — Karen Marie Moning
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a… — Tim Ferriss
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all… — Jules Verne
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here,… — Mitch Albom
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is… — Woody Allen

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