Avoidance Quote by Deepak Chopra

“Two types of avoidance cause problems for people: avoiding pleasure and avoiding pain.”

— Todd Kashdan

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

— Tony Robbins

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

— Peter Kreeft

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek hope and avoid fear, and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid…

— Nir Eyal

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

— Samuel Johnson

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

— Bertrand Russell

I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus,…

— Jonathan Balcombe

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

— Nicholas Kristof

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we…

— Joko Beck