All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship.… — Harriet B. Braiker Copy Share Image
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“The desire to be without core emotional experiences is just another form of craving. Using spiritual endeavor to bypass emotions is just… — Josh Korda Copy Share Image
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down,… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
