I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy…

“Thinking, even when thinking is difficult, versus nonthinking Awareness, even when awareness is challenging, versus unawareness Clarity, whether or not it comes easily, versus…

— Nathaniel Branden

“In the most common fantasy of ideal love, [...], a woman can only unleash her desire in the hands of a man whom she…

— Jessica Benjamin

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

— Rachel Ward

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the…

— Gemma Ward

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

— Maggie Stiefvater

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the…

— Hilaire Belloc

“If you love stress, practice avoidance.”

— Sharon Rowe

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

— Frederick Lenz

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

— Deepak Chopra

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be…

— Charles M. Blow

“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.”

— Silvia Hartmann

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

— James Richardson

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

— John Whiting