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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• People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

  Noah Weinberg

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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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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• Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

  Louis C. K.

  Editors, Feelings, Comedian

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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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• Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Food, Pride

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• Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Battle, Disease, Able

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.75, BenBella Books

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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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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• 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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• Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

  Tim Hansel

  Inspirational, Pain, Joy

  Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

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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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• The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

  Livy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

  Aulus Cornelius Celsus

  Music, Fitness, Running

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• Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

  Dan Brown

  Fear, Men, Psychology

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Change, Vacation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 09, 2015

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• Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

  Robin Williams

  Sad, Tired, Boys

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• Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Inspirational, Beauty, Humility

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• If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

  Al-Ghazali

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Islamic

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• One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Happy, Letting Go

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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