Avoiding Quotes - Page 17

• I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

  Helen Keller

  Valleys, Trouble, Infinite

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  People, Hospitality, Method

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• Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

  Fay Weldon

  Acceptance, Effort, Tides

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• There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nice, Cells, Practice

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• If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hair, Ideas, Desperation

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• ... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.

  Anne Bancroft

  Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

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• The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Silence, Vices, Cunning

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• One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, Enemy, Delay

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• Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

  Laura Schlessinger

  Taken, Boys, Self

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• Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Use, Environment, Consciousness

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.18, Basic Books

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Self, Order, Knows

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Issues, People

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• The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Wise, Disappointment, Expectations

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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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• Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
  [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

  Horace

  Vices, Virtue, Highest

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• When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Years, Europe, Saturn

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• There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

  James E. Faust

  Wise, Mean, Practice

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• Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

  David Bayles

  Simple, Survival, Way

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.68, Image Continuum Press

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• It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Risk, Important

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• Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Eye, Loss

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• I spent so much time at Escuela Caribe denying my true emotions and avoiding conflict that I became unsure of what my feelings really were. This is something that affects me to this day. I feel extremely uncomfortable during arguments, to the point of shutting down and not saying anything, like a turtle retracting into its shell. I can't stand conflict.

  Julia Scheeres

  Feelings, Emotion, Conflict

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. “Improving how exactly?” I asked. “In combat, in following the dress code, or in keeping her hands to herself?” “Or in turning off caps-lock?” added Eddie. “You noticed that too?” I asked. “Hard not to,” he said.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Dresses, Dress Code

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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• Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.

  Sully Erna

  Stress, Sadness, Thinking

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• We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Criticism, Making A Difference

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