Avoid Pain Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
— M. Scott Peck
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Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and…
— Hal Borland
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
— Tim Hansel
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To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the…
— Beth Moore
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You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
— Marc Maron
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The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle…
— Mario Cuomo
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Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our…
— Nathaniel Branden
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying…
— R. D. Laing
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.
— Paulo Coelho
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It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but…
— Paulo Coelho
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
— Rajneesh
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It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the…
— Jane Green
Who Wrote These Avoid Pain Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Avoid Pain Quotes as follows: