Avoidance Quotes

• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

  Thomas Hardy

  Evil, Impossible, Framed

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.120, e-artnow

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

  Dan Greenburg

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

  Tony Dungy

  Solve, Temporary

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”, p.160, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. MacKay, (p. 140), 1977.

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• When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Dangerous World, Choices

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

  R. D. Laing

  Pain, Life Is, This Life

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• We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Teaching, Learning, Two

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

  Liz Murray

  Believe, Kind, Stride

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.200, Random House

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• Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Compassion, Life Is, Frantic

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• Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 15, 2011

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• Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Suffering, Child Abuse, Results

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• When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

  Bill Crawford

  Purpose, Void, Our Lives

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• I often work by avoidance.

  Brian Eno

  Work

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• The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

  Simon Sinek

  Scary, Trying, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 28, 2015

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• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  Vernon Howard

  Freedom, Numbers, Being Free

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• Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Pain, Sin

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• I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Reality, Choices, Fantasy

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Believe, Silence, Desire

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Strong, Pain

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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

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• To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Needs, Civilisation

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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