But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not. — Liz Murray
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. — Leon Festinger
The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it. — Mark Manson
The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame. — Mark Manson
Avoid things that will require an apology. — Arabic Proverbs
Devaluing your partner when things become too close is very typical of people with an avoidant attachment style and is used as a way to create emotional distance. — Amir Levine
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. — Helen Keller
Avoidants are not exactly open books and tend to repress rather than express their emotions. — Amir Levine
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. — Dan Brown
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho
Trying to avoid something can make you want it even more. — Turkish Proverbs
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. — Dale Carnegie
We are so afraid of discomfort that we avoid any situation that challenges us to grow and evolve. — Michael Easter
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. — Julius Caesar
Short Avoidance Quotes
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. — Linus Torvalds
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. — Quintus Tullius Cicero
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood. — Satchel Paige
The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.
Conflict Avoidance Quotes
Don't fight people who are bigger than you. — Thai Proverbs
Whether it’s in the office or around the family dinner table, don’t avoid honest, clear conflict. It will get you the best car price, the higher salary, and the largest donation. It will also save your marriage, your friendship, and your family. — Chris Voss
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, Say nothing and be nothing
An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. — Michael Shurtleff
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving. — M. Scott Peck
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. — Robert Toombs
Only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, do nothing.
The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us. — David W Augsburger
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence. — Bhikkhu Bodhi
I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them. — Otto von Bismarck
The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them. — Felix Frankfurter
Emotional Avoidance Quotes
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. — M. Scott Peck
It’s impossible to experience joy without being sad, so are you really willing to give up joy so that you can avoid feeling sad? — Alex Hormozi
Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached! — Gad Saad
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Bite your tongue. When you’re attacked in a negotiation, pause and avoid angry emotional reactions. — Chris Voss
One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity. — Gad Saad
Avoid the rabbit holes that can kind of lead to us not being our best selves and not feeling great… — Christina Koch
Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.
If you want to avoid making the same mistakes twice, make more decisions based on your past memories and fewer decisions based on your current emotions. — Steven Bartlett
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’ — John Bradshaw
People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about. — Paul Tournier
Tax Avoidance Quotes
On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes. — Molly Ivins
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. — Denis Healey
Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag — Jay Leno
Prosperity isn't found by avoiding problems, it's found by solving them.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. — Elizabeth Warren
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. — John Maynard Keynes
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013. — John Cornyn
Criticism is something we can avoid easily, by saying nothing, and being nothing.
We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire. — Charlie Munger
Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants — George Osborne
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. — Richard Neal
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. — George Sutherland
Relationship Avoiding Quotes
You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can’t avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be guaranteed in advance to turn out painlessly and well. — Oliver Burkeman
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them. — Jodi Picoult
Strength comes from overcoming adversity, not avoiding it.
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
The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him. — Charles Stanley
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together. — Graham Greene
There's no avoiding persistence.
I'm not avoiding your question on my relationship to the fashion world or my work being shown in a fashion setting. My work's most often seen in the streets on billboards. I don't know if it being seen in a shop is any much different. — Robert Montgomery
The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage. — Albert Einstein
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves. — Nathaniel Branden
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve. — William P. Young
Avoiding Life Quotes
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. — Milarepa
Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing. — Thales
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. — Ralph Ransom
We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say? — Michel de Montaigne
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages. — Ahmed Chalabi
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 not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Keller
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. — Mark Manson
Love Avoid Quotes
Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that. — Steven Furtick
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. — Leo Buscaglia
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
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love. — Maximus the Confessor
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. — Caspar David Friedrich
I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them. — Uma Thurman
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. — C. S. Lewis
Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten. — Jacob Grimm
You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him. — Frederick Herzberg
Avoiding Pain Quotes
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others. — Omar Khayyam
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers. — Mark Twight
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel
We'll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain. — James Clear
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings. — Joanna Macy
It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. — Stephenie Meyer
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. — Jean De La Bruyere
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. — R. D. Laing
Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live. — T. Colin Campbell
To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable. — Mark Manson
Someone Avoid Quotes
I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm. — Logan Paul
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. — Prem Rawat
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. — Werner Heisenberg
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex! — Kate Beckinsale
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan
The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid. — An Na
Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance. — Ephrem the Syrian
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. — Richard Carlson
Avoiding Temptation Quotes
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. — Mae West
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. — Francis Crick
You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right. — Jack D. Schwager
It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system — Ed Seykota
The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. — Spencer W. Kimball
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
To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits. — George H. W. Bush
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. — Ryan Hall
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily. — Michel Odent
All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! — Abdul Kalam
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite — Rick Riordan
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind — Michelle Alexander
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho
It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions. — Paul Bocuse
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. — Albert Einstein
Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion. — John Lennox
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest. — Baron de Montesquieu
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. — Terry Pratchett
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