Quotes About Avoidance

Avoid arguments. They are a distraction from survival. If you lose, you feel more a loser than usual. If you win, you have made an enemy. --John Berger

Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the 'healing feeling.'

don't do things that kill you.

We see how many tricks they try, how many pursuits they exhaust themselves with in order to secure the objects of their ambition or greed, while trying to avoid, on the other hand, poverty and humility.

There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse they seek.

Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.

The sense of humour creates livingness within you and makes the ways, to avoid hostile, arrogant, and irritating behaviours. If you cannot humour then just enjoy the humour demonstrated by others, if you don't, it means your heart and mind is dead

He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl's account o how she avoided being kissed on the doorstep of her house once by wearing a flower in her hair and sticking it in her mouth when she said good night. Only I had no flower.

But many HSPs avoid people who come in the overstimulating packages—the strangers, the big parties, the crowds. For

The truth that many people do not understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. —Thomas Merton

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.

In a short while I wished I could talk every day to a boy on that level: how many mistakes I had made with him; what foolishness it had been to want him, love him, and yet always avoid him.

Alors elle prit un ton agressif comme pour me signifier que mon éventuelle noyade ne serait pas à lui imputer à elle, qui avait fait tout ce qu'il fallait pour l'éviter, mais entièrement à mon manque de mémoire.

qué tontería había sido quererlo, amarlo, y pese a todo evitarlo siempre.