Quotes About Avoidance

We avoid pain because we live in a culture that teaches us to avoid pain. We avoid pain because we don't know that turning toward pain — and I use pain as an umbrella term for anything uncomfortable that we wish to avoid feeling — is one of the secret pathways to joy.

Sometimes You got to face it to avoid it!!!!

I have met ghosts who attract me, and, following my habit in the material world, I have avoided the ghosts that bore me.

People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.

just as before we had to go the long way round, to avoid Timeslips and places where directions were often a matter of opinion.

Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

Trying to run from problems, is the same as trying to run away from our own shadow.

He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

He had heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.

We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all.

was left off the list. The guy was avoided

Hell, yea, I want something. I want you to stop avoiding me.

It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

I hate confrontations. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.