Avoiding pain Quote by Todd Kashdan

My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in…

— Rick Moody

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

— Tony Robbins

“Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.”

— Bryant McGill

“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

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

— Anonymous

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

— Anonymous

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

— Samuel Johnson

“When you associate pleasure and pain, at the same time, to a certain purpose in your mind, you sabotage yourself; you'll be two steps…

— Elena D. Calin

“Avoidance is never the answer. Yes, life is all about pain and trouble and frustration and anger, but it's also about love and friendship…

— M. Leighton

“We must remember that pain is just the other side of joy. If you avoid all possibilities to pain, you also block all avenues…

— Awdhesh Singh