Rationalization Quotes

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thomas was like a drug, so smooth and overwhelming that he took one up a level in their emotions just by watching him and listening to him. He was a natural entertainer, filled with talent and knowledge on many subjects and a keen sense of the arts and music. I admired him as he performed for us, and I forgot the ugliness again

~ Sara Niles

We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The fact that we are irritated, depressed, and distressed speaks volumes of our illogical ambitions to acquire control of this planet. Mostly, philosophically challenged and scant respect for natural way of life is making us irrelevant.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?

~ Chris Heimerdinger

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

~ Saul Bellow

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough