Quotes About Avoidance

When people are blocked creatively, they avoid fun. Why? Because fun leads straight to creativity. Fun leads to healthy anarchy, to festive rebellion, to sensing our own strength and power. Feeling our own power is often frightening.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning little step back, With each dialectical evasion, Retreating, receding, 'no...no...no...' Until one simply disappears...

The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something, we avoid it; we won't do it.

The party to which he belonged had, as he knew, endeavoured to avoid the subject of the disendowment of the Church of England. It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

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Das Ziel des Weisen ist nicht Glück zu erlangen, sondern Unglück zu vermeiden.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.

since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

To avoid criticism: Say noting, do nothing, be nothing.

Mary Ann did not know. She avoided the issue by ordering a turkey sandwich and a bean salad. Mona ordered another Pimm's Cup.

The end of the trial was a black hole, waiting to consume Bobby's future, as unavoidable and as unwelcome as death. So he did his best not to think about it.

We never see the signs we don't want to see.

It's just easier not to be noticed. That way people don't expect things from you. There's no pressure, nothing to fear.

I've known plenty of women who brace themselves whenever they leave the house, even a few who try to avoid leaving the house. Of course, a woman has only to wait until she's a certain age, when she becomes invisible, and—problem solved.

Nothing is more comfortable than not having to think.

You can't fix something if you're hiding from it.

So instead I'm zapping her lots of smiley faces and emojis of shiny suns and sailboats and dodging the truth altogether. (Maybe that's what emojis were invented for in the first place, and I've just been using them wrong. They're not there to convey thoughts in a fun way; they're there to lie to your mum.)

Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.

Don't make me sit through reality.

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.