Contemplating Quote by Albert Wohlstetter

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it...

— Charles M. Schulz

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

— Henepola Gunaratana

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire…

— Shakti Gawain

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that…

— Anonymous

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

— Rory Cochrane

A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.

— Rakim

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

— Mason Cooley

Trying to avoid something or someone will just make it a lot worse..

— Anonymous

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

— Publilius Syrus

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable...

— Jeb Corliss

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us.…

— Louise Hay