Quotes About Avoidance

For one, he was worried he'd get killed, which was something he generally tried to avoid.

death was permanent, and should be avoided if possible.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Consciously or unconsciously, you may choose to delay by burying yourself in other work or fool yourself into believing that the time isn't ripe to make the call. The result is what leadership thinkers have termed work avoidance: the tendency to avoid taking the bull by the horns, which results in tough problems becoming even tougher.1

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

Suffering is such a deep part of living," wrote Robert Kull, who lived alone on an island in Patagonia for a year, in 2001, "that if we try too hard to avoid it, we end up avoiding life entirely." The Tao Te Ching says that "happiness rests in misery.

Maybe we didn't want to know. Couldn't let ourselves know.

As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A politics of moral engagement is not only a more inspiring ideal than a politics of avoidance. It is also a more promising basis for a just society.

Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.

Much of the fear of death comes from an intuition that we will be revealed as having avoided encounters with the deep self within us.

Când nu e?ti sigur, ocole?te.

If you see Ingrid, don't look at her. Walk the other way." I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he's part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.

I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents' number but then I wondered what I'd say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room?

The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Peter..." She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there." "That's what people always say about places where they already are.

Cependant, l'animal le plus faible est en général en mesure d'éviter le combat par l'adoption d'une posture de soumission (accroupissement, présentation de l'anus).

Did you follow me here?" "Something like that." I let out a frustrated groan. "Can't anyone just talk to me straight? Why is everyone avoiding my damn questions tonight?" Bishop's brows went up. "Okay, fine. Yes, I followed you here. Better?" "Yes. Stalkery, but better." "I'm not stalking you." "Spoken like a true stalker

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

En el mundo —le dijo Mamá, y el cigarrillo se movía a compás de sus labios como si fuera un apéndice propio— hay personas absorbentes, que creen que sólo lo suyo merece respeto. Huye de ellas, Quico, como de la peste.

I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.