Avoiding Quotes - Page 21

• Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Important, Energy, Drains

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• Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Thinking, Practice

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• Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Art, Intelligent

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• Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Keys, Practice

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• Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

  Leigh Newman

  Pain, Feelings, Energy

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• Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.

  Richard Moss

  Relationship, Past, Support You

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• If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

  Lauren Mackler

  Dream, Fear, Live Life

  "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

  Mark Dever

  Steps, Doctrine, Hell

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• The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Worry, Debt

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• It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Writing, Artist

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• We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.265, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Yoga, Buddhism

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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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• We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Dark, Self, Shadow

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• We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

  Charlie Munger

  Way, Taxes, Miraculous

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  T. D. Jakes (2000). “The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord”, Berkley

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• There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

  Dallas Willard

  Ideas, Facts, Mercy

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• We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

  Julian Barnes

  Safe, Way, Mature

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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• I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Years, Finishing

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• All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the principles of provident living: joyfully living within our means, being content with what we have, avoiding excessive debt, and diligently saving and preparing for rainy-day emergencies. When we live providently, we can provide for ourselves and our families and also follow the Savior's example to serve and bless others.

  Robert D. Hales

  Spiritual, Mean, Rainy Day

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• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hard Work, People, Coaching

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Work, Tasks, Done

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Kindness, People

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• Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation Practice, Holding On, Moments

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
  nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
  It is actually the ability to use energy data
  to make decisions in the immediate moment.

  Caroline Myss

  Mean, Loss, Data

  Caroline Myss (2010). “Anatomy Of The Spirit”, p.179, Random House

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