Quotes About Avoidance

Once you step into a fight that is not of your own choosing, you lose all initiative. The combatants' interests become your interests; you become their tool. Learn to control yourself, to restrain your natural tendency to take sides and join the fight. Be friendly and charming to each of the combatants, then step back as they collide. With every battle they grow weaker, while you grow stronger with every battle you avoid.

Avoidance of conflict becomes a habit, and you lose the taste for battle. Feeling guilty is pointless; it is not your fault you have enemies.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

El hecho de evitar el dinero es tan psicótico como ser adicto a el.

Sonderbarerweise sprechen wir oft davon, aber es ist gerade [grenzenloses Empfinden], was wir lebenslang vermeiden.

they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face.

They're busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face.

Yet deep down they know they are avoiding something important.

Today, I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealth. And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The cause is the same. They're busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face. Nobody has to tell them. Deep down they know. In fact, if you remind them, they often respond with anger or irritation.

Usted sabe que si tenemos en nosotros cualquier cosa que nos duele, tratamos de evitar que nadie se acerque y la toque. Creo que esta explicación funciona también con el alma, no solo con nuestros cuerpos

I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

I avoid the drama of the girls still neck-deep in the snow, running away from the pain as fast as they can. I hope they figure it out.

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

any departure from reality that could easily be avoided ought to be avoided.

I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.