Quotes About Avoidance

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

The adoption of tastes is driven in part by this social jockeying, this learning and avoidance. But this is not the whole picture. Sometimes tastes change simply because of errors and randomness.

the things we don't deal with always come back. There's no escape

If you refused to look, it was easy to pretend it wasn't happening.

You may go, but here are my orders: Do not interact with Scarlet. Stay as far out of her way as you can. Don't let her know you're there. Don't fight with anyone, don't make any queens mad, and most importantly, don't you dare die. Understood?

The rules: Nobody mentions the abyss. Nobody goes near the abyss. Everyone pretends the abyss does not exist anymore. Everyone acts like they hear absolutely zero whispers and feel zero weirdness coming from the creepy big dark hole.)

People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary

When CNGs avoid the often difficult but necessary look into their childhood influences, they sentence themselves to very small lives, full of internal and external conflicts. Instead of learning how to do conflict well, they avoid it at all costs, setting themselves up for even more painful experiences with manipulative people.

an avoidance of confrontation and a sustaining refuge in the comforts of family life.

an avoidance of confrontation and a sustaining refuge in the comforts of family life. The realization that everyone is in the same boat, under siege by bad government

When our main goals are to gain comfort and avoid discomfort, we begin to feel disconnected from, and even threatened by, others.

The essence of samsara is this tendency that we have to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek security and avoid groundlessness, to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. The basic teaching is that that is how we keep ourselves miserable, unhappy, and stuck in a very small, limited view of reality.

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.