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Avoid Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
- Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid…
- The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
- Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or…
- Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a…
- When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
- An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the…
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- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
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- I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
- The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each… — Paulo Coelho
- We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama
- You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb