Quotes About Avoidance

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Later he would declare that "not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

They all seemed to be avoiding each other—and not just to be polite. They seemed to take obvious measures to stay clear of anyone else.

Almost everyone he saw looked uneasy. They all seemed to be avoiding each other—and not just to be polite. They seemed to take obvious measures to stay clear of anyone else. Just like back at the mall, many of them wore masks or held rags that covered their mouth and nose as they walked.

it occurred to him that maybe the world wasn't so bad after all... gradually details he hadn't noticed began to come into focus... Almost everyone looked uneasy. They all seemed to be avoiding each other-and not just to be polite. They seemed to take serious measures to stay clear of everyone else.

Sometimes we act in order not to see.

Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!

Sleep evaded him like an old friend who owed him money.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Fine's a town I don't even visit anymore.

or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at.

I passed whole portions of my life—days, months, years—in pure directed progress, getting up every morning and setting to work, working so hard and so continually that I avoided examining in any way what I knew about my life. Busywork became a trance state. I ignored who I really was and how I became that person, continued in that daily progress, became an automaton who was what she did.

You sit on trouble, don't you, until it blows up in your face?

I am like the Swiss. I prefer not to fight on a Wednesday.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

She wish she knew what it was she was trying not to think about

Will you please leave whelks out of it?

Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard's Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs of recognising him at all. This was hardly surprising since Richard had spent his three years here assiduously avoiding him, often to the extent of growing a beard and pretending to be someone else.

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

When these Velcro thoughts and emotions arise, the key is to face and investigate whatever belief structures underlie them. In that moment, inquiry is your spiritual practice. To avoid this practice is to avoid your own awakening. Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

If we are being sincere and honest with ourselves, there is an intuitive sense of what we are avoiding. If we can find the capacity to be honest, we'll start to feel in ourselves when we're being called to make effort.