Avoid Quotes

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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come… — Sigmund Freud
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to… — Albert Schweitzer
Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness.… — Hugh Prather
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid… — Confucius
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him.… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character,… — Rajneesh
Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he… — Rajneesh
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -… — Thomas A. Edison
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. — Francis Beaumont
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison
It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. — Michael Crichton
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be… — Elias Canetti
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. — Horace Mann
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are… — Elie Wiesel
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to… — Epictetus
Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds… — Steve Pavlina

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