A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.
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.
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
I often work by avoidance.
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.
The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.
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.
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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.
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.
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