Quotes About Avoidance

For I showed men how they were the cause of their own unhappiness and, in consequence, how they might avoid it', writes Rousseau to Voltaire in his famous letter on the Lisbon disaster, laying the foundations of a new spirit that desacralizes nature, removing it from divine will and entrusting it to the hands of man.

Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.

It was easy to avoid his mother because she did not seek his company, make his meals, or do his laundry. His childhood home was a place to lodge until his orders came through.

Somewhere in my past, I learned that if you separate yourself, you don't get hurt. Pain can be avoided.

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.

Head down, hoodie up, eyes on the ground. Be unimportant. Blend in. Disappear. That was how you avoided the bullies.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank—to distract themselves from the abyss.

I think you get so involved in the lives of the people you write about so you can avoid dealing with your own," she said.

58 Cuando vas junto con tu contrario a querellarte ante el magistrado, haz en el camino todo lo posible por librarte de él, no sea que por fuerza te lleve al juez, y el juez te entregue al alguacil, y el alguacil te meta en la cárcel. 59 Porque yo te aseguro que de ella no saldrás, hasta que hayas pagado el último maravedí. 13

Better to get away light than get caught heavy.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

We all use the future to escape the present.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

I write: Reason for not jumping: Too messy. Too public. Too crowded.

people who don't face their problems head-on are the worst kind of cowards.

You only likes guys you don't have a shot with, because you're scared. What are you so scared of?" I back away from him, right into the wall. "I'm not scared of anything." "The hell you're not. You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

I wake up the next morning renewed. I am a girl with a plan. I'm just going to have to avoid Josh forever. It's as simple as that.