True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary…

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

— John Welwood

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

— Kage Baker

“You don’t need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

— Sheryl Sandberg

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

— Derek Jeter

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

— John Irving

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave…

— Tom Perrotta

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

— Richard Branson

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

— Paulo Coelho

“True love, a question for which there is no answer.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”

— Natsume Sōseki

Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to…

— Rajneesh

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is…

— Edward Hallowell

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary…

— Sebastian Junger

To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of…

— Marianne Williamson