Avoiding Quotes - Page 13

• The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Pain, Motivation, Past

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• Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

  Max Lucado

  Father, Doors, Tangled

  Max Lucado (2012). “He Chose the Nails”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Sin, Remission

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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  Damian Lewis

  People, Giving, Acting

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Habit, Dependable

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

  Adyashanti

  Confusion, Important, Way

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.49, Sounds True

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• Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Two, Perfect, Enemy

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Self, World Religions

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• There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, People

  "Taylor Swift's Perfect Break Up Advice, For Broken Hearts Everywhere on Valentine's Day" by Lynsey Eidell, www.glamour.com. February 12, 2015.

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• I use Meaningful Beauty for my daily skincare regime. The system helps to restore, protect, revitalize and renew my skin. Using it daily along with avoiding the sun, not smoking, drinking a lot of water, and getting enough sleep is key to looking and feeling good at any age!

  Cindy Crawford

  Meaningful, Drinking, Sleep

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• The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."

  Max Tegmark

  Strong, Views, Leader

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Effort, Experience

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.347, Shambhala Publications

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pain, Men, Effort

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

  George Polya

  Math, Discovery, Way

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• Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

  Susan Vaught

  Fear, Avoiding Life, Way

  Susan Vaught (2011). “Going Underground”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food.

  Tosca Reno

  Vegetables, Fruit, Eating

  "What is 'clean eating?' Tips from expert Tosca Reno" By Stephanie Hasbrouck, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2012.

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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Temptation, World

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• Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

  Eli Roth

  Life Is, Horrible, Situation

  "The GQ+A: Eli Roth on New Disaster Horror Flick Aftershock". Interview with Jen Ortiz, www.gq.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Life Is Too Short, Surround Yourself With Good People, Surround Yourself With Positive People

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• Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

  Rollo May

  Teacher, Reality, Anxiety

  Rollo May Ph.D. (2015). “The Meaning Of Anxiety”, p.66, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Jargon, Aim, Brevity

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• In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Trying, Denial, Levels

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

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