Quotes About Avoidance

Il rimpianto è il vano pascolo d'uno spirito disoccupato. Bisogna soprattutto evitare il rimpianto occupando sempre lo spirito con nuove sensazioni e nuove immaginazioni.

The life blood of a relationship becomes blocked by clots of repression and denial, and our creative, life-building energy is absorbed by exhausting strategies of avoidance.

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

You know very well that I was in Germany as a child, and you have heard the stories, so I won't tell them to you again. But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend." "I hadn't thought of it that way," Sadie said. Freda stroked Sadie's hand. "Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

A. J. does not particularly care for writers . . . . He tries to avoid meeting the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.

A life entirely devoted to the avoidance of wrong seldom achieves anything exceptionally right—or anything at all.

I've tried to talk to her a couple of times, but she avoids me.

con un propósito, con una prioridad y con productividad, sabiendo que puedes y debes evitar el arrepentimiento, poniendo LO ÚNICO en lo más alto de tus pensamientos y en lo más alto de tu calendario

Procrastination is a part of perfectionism in some people. Those who procrastinate don't do anything. By not doing anything, they can't fail. It's an inhibiting, self-defeating cycle.

Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Shun death, is my advice.

stress is not something to be afraid of or avoided. It is the controllability, pattern, and intensity of stress that can cause problems.

Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to avoid conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hardest part of any negotiation is agreeing to start it. Once you've gotten past that emotional barrier, the solutions usually present themselves.

Patients do not spontaneously home in on the subjects that are most important, psychoanalytically speaking; they spontaneously avoid them, for the most part. Even if they recognize that sexuality should be dwelt upon, for example, they nevertheless tend to avoid associating to the elements in dreams and fantasies that are the most sexually charged.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.

It was easy to understand why Sala didn't mind sharing; neither of us ever went there except to change clothes or sleep. Night after night I would sit uselessly at Al's, drinking myself into a stupor because I couldn't stand the idea of going back to the apartment.