Avoidance Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts, verbal conflict is a waste of word, physical conflict is a waste of flesh.

— Damian Marley

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

— Eli Siegel

“Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

— Karen Horney

“People whose hearts are at war toward others can't consider others' objections and challenges enough to be able to find a way through them.”

— Arbinger Institute

Conflict is the very essence of life.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude…

— Fanny Burney

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity,…

— John Dewey

“Inner conflict is the result of competing claims on attention.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system, between healthy…

— Karen Horney