"Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it transforms you into a princess in the mirror. Even the nights you steal away from an open window, tiptoe silent to the end of the driveway, where darkened headlights and the pull of something unknown beckon. These are all small choices, really. Insignificant as soon as they're made. Innocent. But then. Then there's a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days. One we'll search repeatedly for some indication that what we chose was right, some small sign that tells us the truth isn't nearly as awful as it feels. Or as awful as anyone would think if they knew. So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep." ― Jessi Kirby, Golden
"The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result." ― Sebastian Fitzek, Splitter
"Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy." ― Anthony Liccione
"We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"We have the right to accept or reject people's behavior without having to offer an explanation. If they do not feel the need to justify their actions, then there is no need for us to justify our reactions." ― Nadine Sadaka Boulos
"Doing 'nothing' is often cowardice that we've dressed up to look like discretion." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Nothing is wrong in fighting a battle, but something is wrong in fighting a wrong battle." ― Bamigboye Olurotimi
"Karma is impossible to escape, or overcome. This is because it is both objective, and subjective. Even if you can convince others that your bad actions are justified, you can never convince yourself, for a long period." ― Robert Black
"Remember we are all human and can make mistakes that we should correct. However, no one should ever imagine that other people's mistakes justify or lessen theirs." ― C.A.A. Savastano
"When you earn something, you never have to worry about justifying that you truly deserve it." ― Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight
"There are not nearly as many facts as there are opinions about the facts." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Ignorance is what we choose when the weight of the argument has crushed the logic of our agenda and we refuse to acknowledge the mess." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we're vigorously trying to walk away from." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
"Life is like a novel. Don't expect a positive review before you end it." ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
"I am beautiful. If only someone told me that." ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
"Some excuses are like blaming one's stutter on winter." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Don't bore me with the facts, because once I'm finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I could be bored." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Any excuse that grants me permission to somehow compromise what I am capable of achieving is the 'worst of me' undermining the 'best of me' in a manner that will never be capable of 'excusing me." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Possibly the greatest failure is to be overrun by our failures, and yet somehow declare that the failures evidence the value of what we continue to fail at." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The most successful athletes are self-motivated. "The most important thing is to love your sport," said Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic figure-skating champion. "Never do it to please someone else—it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work needed to achieve success." ― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
"If you are refusing an alcoholic drink, for instance, you don't need to justify your refusal. A simple respectful "No thanks" will do. You know your Yes—that is essential—but sometimes you keep it to yourself, because it is your business and not theirs." ― William Ury, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
"If our ignorance were lifted for the briefest moment, would we immediately wish it back in order to protect ourselves from what we've seen? Or would we wish our ignorance away in order to protect ourselves from being protected?" ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I pretend to do great things, the only thing that I've done greatly is to pretend." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Don't justify the greed by turning a blind eye. Justify the truth by speaking up and being heard." ― Anthony T. Hincks
"The thing about justifications is that they're required when there's not enough truth in what we're doing to justify it without justifying it." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"We can "speak the truth in love." But if the truth doesn't align with a particular agenda, or worse yet, it leaves that agenda indefensible, then what is spoken will be interpreted as hate regardless of how we say it." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Me' was hacked by 'I' and 'Lie.' 'Me' found himself alone when it was time to justify. Neither 'Lie' took stand nor 'I." ― Rajesh Walecha
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