Quotes About Avoidance

She was everything he avoided—youth, innocence, inexperience. And she had everything he wanted—guts, wisdom and compassion.

She rested her hand on my arm, and we walked toward the gazebo. 'Nope,' I said, steering her away. 'That's a sad place. We don't go there.

The more we try to avoid an experience, the more we ensure its return.

foundations On which life and existence rest. For not only would all reasoning collapse, But so, straight away, would life itself, Unless we choose to trust the senses, And avoid precipitous places And other things of the kind that are to be shunned.9 <> As to the error and uncertainty of the

in this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's method of evaluating stimuli, of orienting herself or himself to every experience, that he or she cannot separate him-or herself enough from anxiety to comprehend the goal of avoidance of, or freedom from, anxiety. What Nancy sought was to be able to step cautiously from rock to rock without falling; the idea or possibility of not being on a precipice at all did not occur to her.

Apathy and lack of feeling are also defenses against anxiety. When a person continually faces dangers he is powerless to overcome, his final line of defense is at last to avoid even feeling the dangers.

Third, and probably most importantly, anxiety affects children's behavior. When children are anxious, they may freeze, fidget, pace, cry, cling, and shake. In addition, anxiety usually involves some type of avoidance.

War exists notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it."8

We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence, or anything to do with our actual thoughts.

The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter...The main thing is to keep people from bothering you...The rest is eyewash...

Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.

The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking complete mental health.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.

But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.

As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since all of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, all of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree."- M. Scott Peck

Noel had decided that the very best way to cope with things not being so great was not to think about them at all. It had worked well so far. Why

ensure that your aircraft will not penetrate this area.

put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not