Avoidance Quotes

• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

  Thomas Hardy

  Evil, Impossible, Framed

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.120, e-artnow

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

  Dan Greenburg

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. MacKay, (p. 140), 1977.

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Dangerous World, Choices

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• Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

  Tony Dungy

  Solve, Temporary

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”, p.160, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  R. D. Laing

  Pain, Life Is, This Life

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• Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 15, 2011

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• We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Teaching, Learning, Two

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• I often work by avoidance.

  Brian Eno

  Work

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• Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Compassion, Life Is, Frantic

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• But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

  Liz Murray

  Believe, Kind, Stride

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.200, Random House

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• Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Suffering, Child Abuse, Results

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• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  Vernon Howard

  Freedom, Numbers, Being Free

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Strong, Pain

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• Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Pain, Sin

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• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Believe, Silence, Desire

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• I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Reality, Choices, Fantasy

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

  Simon Sinek

  Scary, Trying, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 28, 2015

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• Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

  John Piper

  Christian, Passion, Evil

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• We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

  Epicurus

  Choices, Return, Pleasure

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• When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

  Bill Crawford

  Purpose, Void, Our Lives

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