Rationalize Quote by Harlan Coben

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

— Charles Colson

“Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.”

— Erich Fromm

Sometimes in life, when we really want something, we can approach it in a way that might actually be closing us off from achieving…

— Gretchen Bleiler

We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I…

— Michael Neill

When we can't have the things that we want, We start to realize the real value of what we already have.

— Ash Sweeney

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

— Siri Hustvedt

Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.

— Jack Canfield

We want what we want when we want it.

— Kevin McCarty

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

— Hanne Blank

If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.

— Peter McWilliams

When you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.

— Tammara Webber

Sometimes we think so much about what we want, and we forget to appreciate what we have.

— Nishan Panwar