Quotes About Avoidance

When we fight against and/or hide from unpleasant or painful sensations and feelings, we generally make things worse. The more we avoid them, the greater is the power they exert upon our behavior and sense of well-being. What is not felt remains the same or is intensified, generating a cascade of virulent and corrosive emotions. This forces us to fortify our methods of defense, avoidance and control. This is the vicious cycle created by trauma.

They may avoid any activity, person or other reminder that resembles what originally frightened them.

October, many crossing the street to avoid him

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”