Avoiding Quotes

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Adversity, Fighting

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• Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Freedom, Hate

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.

  Sonia Choquette

  Inspirational, Bad Vibes, Giving

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Sep 26, 2011

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• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

  Joey Adams

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Commit to growing yourself. Do not avoid problems and or complain about problems. Don't let them bother you. In fact, don't even call them problems; refer to them as "challenges" or "situations". Let go of the emotion and drama you create when you don't get what you want. Just stay present and handle one situation at a time with an open mind and an open heart. Trust yourself and in the universe that everything will work out in the end.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 05, 2014

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• You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

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• I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Years, I've Learned, Supposed To Be

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• You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

  Paul Tillich

  Neurosis, Way

  The Courage to Be pt. 2, ch. 3 (1952)

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• I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Choices, Design

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

  Umar

  Friendship, True Friend, Islamic

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• There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Stupid People, Society

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.53, Penguin

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• You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Humorous, Healing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, Fear, Taken

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Pain, Rocks

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.51

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• I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

  Syd Barrett

  Disappear

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, Military, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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