Quotes About Avoidance

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

Trips to the dentist-I like to postpone that kind of thing.

She abhorred a conversational vacuum.

In truth, her grief made me uncomfortable. It was too close to a place I had been, and not that long ago. I was wary of her sadness, as if it were contagious, and found myself looking for excuses to stay away from her, trying to keep myself busy so that I didn't have to absorb it too.

How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?

wondering if there was any way I could get to my car without passing him, but it was hopeless.

anything to stop me having to sit and contemplate my own life.

unspoken regrets and recriminations swept out of sight like crumbs from the table, silence blanketing the room, the two of them avoiding each other's eyes.

When avoidance becomes pervasive, it is known as phobia. Phobias develop in different ways. A phobic reaction is one in which a person feels his environment has let him down. As essential component is a perceived loss of control.

Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it.

Trigger warnings are counter-therapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains PTSD.

Avoiding triggers

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

If it upsets you better not recall it." --The Chalk Garden, a play by Enid Bagnold, 1953/1956

If it upsets you better not recall it.

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

Pleasure and pain moreover supply the motives of desire and of avoidance, and the springs of conduct generally. This being so, it clearly follows that actions are right and praiseworthy only as being a means to the attainment of a life of pleasure. But that which is not itself a means to anything else, but to which all else is a means, is what the Greeks term the telos, the highest, ultimate or final Good.