You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
You can't find peace by avoiding life.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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.
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.
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.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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