Quotes About Avoidance

All meditations on death should be avoided, according to Reynolds Price: "Never give death a serious hearing till its ripeness forces your final attention and dignified nod.

When couples cannot talk about their problems in a healthy way and become entrenched in their opinions, they have the same failed conversations over and over.  The relationship becomes emotionally clogged. Friction and frustration grow. Partners feel rejected, like they can't get through to one another.  Behaviors associated with conflict avoidance include passive aggressive behavior, withdrawal. 

When our conversations become constrained, when we avoid topics that might cause upset, when we accept comments or behavior that are hurtful, we no longer aim for harmony but rather toward a sort of deafness that allows us to stay in a relationship longer than we should.  Our senses have become dulled and we end up settling, even when we are anguished. 

BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs's work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of anything that would make the work disjunctive, fragmented. The refusal of humor, self-mockery, flirtation with the audience, cult of personality. The distaste for the exhibitionistic: movement calling attention to itself, isolatable "effects." Beauty as, first of all, an art of refusal.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

It iz the little bits ov things that fret and worry us; we kan dodge an elefunt but we kan't a fli.

He had firsthand knowledge of getting punched in the face, and it was an experience he didn't want to repeat.

1. List your own top three lust triggers. How can you avoid them? 2. What time of day or week are you most tempted by lust? What can you do to prepare for those times? 3. Which locations are the most tempting for you? How can you limit your time in those places? 4. What five little battles do you need to be fighting more faithfully? Describe in detail what it looks like for you to fight—and win—these battles.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar

porque el dolor que produce la verdad es tan agudo que dedicamos una vida entera a evitarlo.

Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to, she hardly thought of anything else.

If you are like most human beings, you are one big procrastinator.

Die einzige Chance zum Vermeiden eines unvermeidlichen Endes besteht in der Hoffnung.

Alayc?l?k gerçek duygular?n yüzeye ç?kmas?n? engelleyen tek ÅŸeydir ve inan bana o duygularla yüzleÅŸmek istemezsin.

Yes, that's exactly what he would do. Avoid her. How difficult could that be?

Don't be silly. I don't even know the man. And if I did, I would probably run in the opposite direction. He is exactly the sort of man the two of us should avoid at all costs. He could probably seduce an iceberg.

He didn't want to talk about it, he didn't want listen to explanations.

It came to him in a startling flash. He missed her. He was here, in the same house, sleeping just three doors down, and he missed her. It was his own fault. He knew he'd been avoiding her. But what was he to do? He had kissed Billie, kissed her until he was nearly past the edge of reason, and now he was expected to make polite conversation with her at the breakfast table? In front of his mother ?

She had no idea how to deal with the poor man. He wasn't very bright, but he also wasn't unkind, and though she knew she had to somehow put an end to his infatuation, she was finding it far easier to take the coward's way out and simply avoid him.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

As a forward it is always a bit easier to avoid the kind of challenges that can cause impact injuries.

I have found out what I am allergic to, and I am trying to avoid that in my daily food intake.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.