Quotes About Avoidance

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced--the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced—the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. —ANONYMOUS

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long.

Totalitarianism always starts with restrictions on the rights of others. We must avoid this at all costs. George Washington even said, "If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

De te ?ii dup? umbr?, fuge de tine; Fugi de ea, ?i te va urma.

To ask another man's blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility.

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.

Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.

I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

What better way of avoiding work than going to a workshop?

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.

what happens when trauma survivors stay emotionally shut down? Trauma's echoes cannot dissipate. The continuing reverberations gradually erode connection and trust with loved ones. Partners need to recognize that avoiding emotion sets their relationship up for descent

When they felt secure with their lover, they could reach out and connect easily; when they felt insecure, they either became anxious, angry, and controlling, or they avoided contact altogether and stayed distant

It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint.

To avoid fear emboldens it.

To avoid a fear emboldens it.

The physical and emotional distress that result from incurring the misogynist's displeasure can be so painful that women will do virtually anything to avoid it, including tolerate their partner's irrational behavior.

The Three P's": Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis.