Quotes About Avoidance

Questo è proprio il tuo modo di evitare le cose. Non si può non fare nulla perché si ha paura di restare feriti.»

I won't eat anything green.

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

Anything you shun will have won.

People lament for their losses because it´s easier mourn for the past than avoid them in present.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Aah! Eye contact. Look away!

Magnus got to his feet. "I do believe that's my cue to leave as well," he said. Clary noticed he was avoiding looking at Alec. "I'd say it's been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn't. It's been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.

Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

As for the queen, I had no more interest in her company than in plunging my face into a nest of hornets.

If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it.

If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it." - Nathan

She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.

But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.

But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begins? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can be misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.

We consume to avoid living.

As I was to learn, avoiding conflict causes conflict to seek you out.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it...

Tan solo clasificó las cosas que dolían y las cosas que no dolían. Y después de aquella clasificación evitó las cosas dolorosas, las restricciones y los frenos para disfrutar de las satisfacciones y las recompensas de la vida.

He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.