Avoidance Quotes
Gina Greenlee
Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.
1466Aeschylus
There is no avoidance in delay.
1319 Tom McNeal
Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.
3526 B.F. Skinner
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
2413 Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
4157 Bryant McGill
You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.
2123 Vironika Tugaleva
Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.
2448 Lolly Daskal
Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves
2552 Margaret Atwood
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
1548 Michael Chabon
He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.
3737 R.D. Laing
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
4794 Paulo Coelho
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
3046 Fernando Pessoa
I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.
I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,
Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.
I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.
I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.
1444 Toba Beta
Fight for change? Thirst for difference?
Start talking what men avoid talking about.
4536 Asa Don Brown
Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.
2127 Craig D. Lounsbrough
What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve yet to realize that with God, the blessings will always and forever eclipse whatever I fear despite how absolutely imposing those fears might be
1158 Stefan Molyneux
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
1329 Brian Luke Seaward
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
1499 Stefan Molyneux
The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.
4535 J.D. Robb
Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)
1806 Northern Adams
Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
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