Quotes About Avoidance

The responsibility of loving someone is too much for anyone to take, which is why she's done her best to avoid it.

don't read. It's a waste of time. It's just for people who want to escape real life.

I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this.

I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn't be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.

That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

Basically, it was like going to the dentist. Something unpleasant was happening around my mouth, someone else's face was too close to mine, and the best thing to do was to shut my eyes, breathe through my nose and think about something else.

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

A smidgen of prevention can prevent some real headaches!

To show actual avoidance of dissonant information, it is necessary to make comparisons against a neutral baseline.

I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident.

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

Now you will realize that this beggar came to your home with an alms for you—the widening of your heart in compassion and the release of your spirit in freedom. Where before you used to be controlled (these persons had the power to create negative emotions in you and you went out of your way to avoid them) now you have the gift of freedom to avoid no one, to go anywhere.