Quotes About Avoidance

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Technology can help us connect to people and viewpoints we'd never otherwise experience: using it as a way of avoiding awkward but straightforward conversations that are part of everyday life just increases our isolation and disconnection from each other.

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.

I point out to her that pain can be protective; staying in a depressed place can be a form of avoidance. Safe inside her shell of pain, she doesn't have to face anything, nor does she have to emerge into the world, where she might get hurt again. Her inner critic serves her: I don't have to take any action because I'm worthless.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.

flight to health is a phenomenon in which patients convince themselves that they're suddenly over their issues because, unbeknownst to them, they can't tolerate the anxiety that working through these issues is bringing up.

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

By focusing on one external calamity after another, Charlotte has been distracting herself from the real crises in her life—the internal ones. Sometimes "drama," no matter how unpleasant, can be a form of self-medication, a way to calm ourselves down by avoiding the crises brewing inside.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Our actions often show our resistance. For instance: Changing the subject Leaving the room Going to the bathroom Being late Getting sick Procrastinating by: doing something else doing busy work wasting time Looking away, or out the window Flipping through a magazine Refusing to pay attention Eating, drinking, or smoking Creating or ending a relationship Creating breakdowns; cars, appliances, plumbing, etc.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.' Myrna

How do you make yourself not like someone?

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

what can I change so I never have to do this again?

It's much cleverer to keep out of trouble than to get out.

It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking.

There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

con su visión recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver.

Mistakes are memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

And Peter, with his 20/20 vision, cast his eyes downward, so that he wouldn't see.

One way adult children avoid their legitimate suffering is by staying in their heads. This involves obsessing about things, analyzing, discussing, reading, and spending lots of energy in trying to figure things out. There is a story about a room with two doors. Each door has a sign on it. One says HEAVEN; the other says LECTURE ON HEAVEN.