Avoiding Pain Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
— Saint Augustine
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
— Albert Einstein
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and…
— Leonard Jacobson
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Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.
— Leigh Newman
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?†“It sets a dangerous precedent. 
— Rainbow Rowell
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Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
— R. D. Laing
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The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain,…
— Robert Trout
Who Wrote These Avoiding Pain Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Avoiding Pain Quotes as follows: