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Avoid Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.
- If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
- The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your…
- The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer…
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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 very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid… — Anthony Bourdain
- 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