Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
I'm not avoiding Fox, but they don't seem to want me to be on their shows much. I can't understand that. — Michael Avenatti Copy Share Image
After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal'… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature.… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Copy Share Image
I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where… — Omar Zuniga Copy Share Image
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image