Quotes About Justification

Master: It is Love. Love is the medicine that accelerates the process of healing. There is no other medicine but unconditional love. Not: I love you if, or I love myself if. There is no if. There is no justification. There is no explanation. It is just to love. Love yourself, love your neighbor, and love your enemies. This is simple, common sense, but we cannot love others until we love ourselves. That is why we must begin with self-love.

We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want "someone who needs me" in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for "someone who needs me," someone we can control and manipulate.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else. By not believing, whatever is untrue will disappear like smoke in this world of illusion. Everything is what it is. You don't need to justify what is true; you don't need to explain it. What is true doesn't need anyone's support. Your lies need your support.

We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

When we go into a relationship, we become selfish because we are needy. It's all about me. We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want "someone who needs me" in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for "someone who needs me," someone we can control and manipulate.

Cada emoción que sientes es real. Es verdad. Proviene directamente de la integridad de tu espíritu. No es posible fingir lo que sientes. Tal vez intentes justificar o reprimir tus emociones; tal vez intentes mentir sobre lo que sientes, pero lo que sientes es auténtico.

A menudo, cuando inicias una relación con alguien que te gusta, tienes que justificar por qué te gusta. Sólo ves lo que quieres ver y niegas que algunos aspectos de esa persona te disgustan. Te mientes a ti mismo con el único fin de sentir que tienes razón. Después haces suposiciones, y una de ellas es: «Mi amor cambiará a esta persona». Pero no es verdad. Tu amor no cambiará a nadie. Si las personas cambian es porque quieren

psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astonishing egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the centre of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules.

Why, when all's said and done, do I have to think up a pretext for my every action? I mean, it really is torment, not a life!

Hell, why should I have to find a pretext for every single thing I do?

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

O desejo de ordem é, ao mesmo tempo desejo de morte, porque a vida é perpétua violação da ordem. Ou, inversamente, o desejo de ordem é um pretexto virtuoso através do qual o ódio do homem pelo homem justifica as suas malfeitorias.

Erigena's argument holds the key to a theological justification (in other words, a theodicy) of shit.

Con que ligereza y con qué defectuosos materiales edifica el hombre sus excusas!

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Heroes only need to be brave when there's a good reason. It would be stupid to risk your life without a purpose.

It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

This papal document—which has not yet been repudiated by the Catholic Church—was the basis for the Christian justification of colonialism and the building of competitive Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, Belgian, German, and other Euro-Christian empires that spanned the world.13 It was the genocide card that was given to every white Christian nation.

The greatest of mankind's criminals are those who delude themselves into thinking they have done "the right thing." —RAYNA BUTLER, sermons on Salusa Secundus

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

This is why angry people are continually explaining and elaborating on the reasons for their negative feelings.

As soon as he stops justifying, he becomes a more positive and effective person.

Las emociones negativas no pueden existir a menos que puedas explicarte a ti y a los demás por qué tienes derecho a sentirte como te sientes con respecto a cierta persona o situación

At the request of his government, then, Lee wrote to Grant: explaining, first, that runaway Negroes who owed service or labor to Confederate citizens still owed it, that the Confederate government would see to it that they paid what they owed, and that Confederate policy in this matter had abundant historical and constitutional justification.