Quotes About Avoidance

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions for being bothered... Indifference is a form of sloth, and sloth in its turn is one of the symptoms of loveless-ness. One isn't lazy about what one loves. The problem is: how to love?

It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.

There are many people who are frightened of something or other, Mma, she said. Even here in Botswana there are people who are frightened. They had looked at each other without saying anything. Each knew what the other meant; each knew that there were things that people preferred not to acknowledge not to admit, lest the admission encourage that which needed no encouragement.

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

We'll fix up a date." It was so easy to say, and so easy to avoid doing it. He was feeling better all the time. It had been right that Laurel was delayed. It was in order that she wouldn't have to be inspected by Sylvia. Sylvia wouldn't like Laurel; they weren't cut out of the same goods.

A large part of our difficulties with jealousy comes from our attempts to avoid feeling a scary or painful emotion.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

The urge to blame is based . . . on the fear of being blamed.

We don't care where the ball lands, as long as it doesn't land on us.

We have to prevent loss of life.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.

So instead of trying to monitor yourself for all the different emotions and what they might mean, simply monitor yourself for the few stages of crowd formation. By avoiding the tell-tale symptoms that accompany becoming part of the crowd, you will automatically avoid emotionalism.

I broke my arm in 3 places so I wont be going back to those places.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton