America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
“Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“the reality of being here eludes me, I can’t focus, I am dazed. And I want to stay this way. If I… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our… — Dipa Ma Copy Share Image
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to… — Warwick Middleton Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we prefer not deciding because it relieves us of the fear of making the wrong decision. But how many times is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad… — Allan Weisbecker Copy Share Image
Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting. — Faith Popcorn Copy Share Image
“But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Choosing to avoid uncomfortable feelings offers immediate short-term relief, but avoidance can lead to long-term consequences. — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves… — Kirk J. Schneider Copy Share Image
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
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