Top Avoidance Quotes

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger.

Avoidance Definition

(n.) The act of annulling; annulment.

(n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

(n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

(n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

(n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

The problem with trying to find your happiness through avoidance is the nature of reality. Reality simply does not allow us to evade unwanted experiences. Sure, we might be able to escape a few {...]...

If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely being nice. At strategic moment it may demand not being nice, but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential t...

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defe...

In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessi...

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.