Quotes About Avoidance

The truth is usually inappropriate," Caroline said. "That's why we avoid speaking of it

Well, let's say you heard a fight in the boys' bathroom, and you broke it up. What would you do naturally if you could solve it your way?" "I would run in the other direction. You really expect me to go in the boys' bathroom? Let them kill each other.

Since then, I've subjected my impulses to leave for work to a three-step protocol: 1) Is it necessary that I go at this moment? 2) Is there something at home that I want to avoid? 3) Will I be letting anyone down by leaving right now?

You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.

No," Max corrected. "You and I are friends. Grayson is the physical manifestation of your avoidant attachment style. He won't let himself want you. You don't want to want to be wanted. Everybody stays at arm's length. Nobody gets hurt, and nobody gets any.

For some people, Rose, it's easier to pretend the things that frighten us most don't exist at all.

I'm not ready." These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything.

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with? - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.

We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.

Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.

impassivity and a good flow of life are not attained except through unerring desire and unfailing avoidance

Transfer caution to the will and the functions of the will, and the mere wish will bring with it the power of avoidance. But if we direct it at what is outside us and is none of our responsibility, wanting instead to avoid what's in the control of others, we are necessarily going to meet with fear, upset and confusion.

But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

And it all comes out so lame. I love your mouth. I love your hair. I love your ears. I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

I've always found it better to fly under the radar than into the fray.

Lorsqu'une calamité s'est effectivement produite, on ne peut jamais démontrer qu'elle était évitable. Même si l'on en est soi-même convaincu. Et je le suis.

I lied and called it "nothing," simply because it was too exhausting to lay it all out.

Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.