Quotes About Avoidance

It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

Hoe pathetic is it that I'd rather risk death that face the dead?

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

Maybe I, too, was splashing around in other people's pain just to avoid drowning in my own. Maybe I was only trying to help them because nobody helped me.

Stay away from Twolegplace!!!!

Our urge to avoid eating something that makes us feel sick is often at the root of disordered eating, as we swerve away from whole categories of foods that we imagine would make us feel uneasy.

Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.

Why would a young man like you be interested in history?" "So I can avoid repeating it." "Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice.

It's always the easy way out, being an existential chicken. Not really being there. It's harder, it's riskier, to be present.

But lawmakers had avoided tackling those critical long-run issues in favor of near-term spending cuts and tax increases that weakened the already weak economy.

did not want journalists to spot me.

We did everything we could think of to avoid it.

There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa.

Devii ner?bd?tor s? traversezi cît mai repede via?a, pentru a sc?pa de oameni.

and should be avoided.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

I'm constantly running away from everything. I'm running away from things on a daily basis. I run away from relationships. I run away from responsibilities.