“Making yourself an outcast was one way to avoid the pain of having it done to you.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Avoidance is never the answer. Yes, life is all about pain and trouble and frustration and anger, but it's also about love… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“It is never easy to endure pain nor uncomfortable situation. It is seems easy to quit to avoid the pain.If you quit… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling.… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Conscience is to the soul what pain is to the body. We would like to avoid pain as much as possible, but… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
The only thing that people try to avoid is pain there's people who find pleasure out of making others suffer making fun… — James Melendez Copy Share Image
“There are odd things in life, and one of them is pain. The odd thing about pain is this: you can't avoid… — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
“There is a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on earth that the best way to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer. — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
Sometimes the only way to avoid pain is to stay away from those who are so important to us. — Dianearreza Copy Share Image
People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well?… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
![“You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e2/alice-walker-347_healing_you-think-you-can-avoid-pain-but-you-act_1674335.png)
