Quotes About Avoidance

The pursuit of comfort is basically the avoidance of life and not only denies us genuine pleasure but also short-circuits the entirety of our well-being.

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost. Having our pain seen and seeing the pain in others is a wonderful medicine for both body and soul.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

But I guess it's just as easy to get lost in the dealing as it is to get lost in the avoidance.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away.

Ik verbaas me altijd over mensen die weten dat iets fout is, maar dat proberen te negeren, alsof het foute daardoor zou verdwijnen.

I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane.

But instead she freezes. She looks away, as if she can ignore her way out of it.

amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

Fears are like physical pain. Although they feel unpleasant, they help us to avoid the events that interfere with our strategies of survival.

He considers turning back but he knows what lies behind him and he wants no part of it. Just as it wants no part of him.

People don't want to calm down because then they see things they sort of knew but didn't want to face.

Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be like that? It's a box left unopened, and its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial-arts extravaganzas.

When you feel like you can't stop something, you don't want to admit it.

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

Dans la langue des viveurs, doubler un cap dans Paris, c'est faire un détour, soit pour ne pas passer devant un créancier, soit pour éviter l'endroit où il peut être rencontre. Lucien qui n'allait pas indifféremment par toutes les rues, connaissait la manoeuvre sans en connaître le nom.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Hasta que puedas comprender lo ilógico y su significatividad, rehúye a los Sufis excepto para servicios limitados, precisos y manifiestos.

steer clear of the love of dark sorceresses.

She didn't want to make anything right. She wanted to make it all go away.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.

The less you know, the further away you are, the easier it is to shrug and tut and move on. And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles. A cluster of hard shells that suck themselves stuck and clench themselves shut and choose not to know about dying.

All of this avoidance was understandable, well-meaning, and in fact filled with love. But the end result turned out to be greater levels of anxiety.