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• Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

  Philip Yancey

  Journey, Heaven, Forget

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

  George Washington

  Debt, Remember, Danger

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

  Geneen Roth

  Pain, Moments, Reverse

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

  Debbie Ford

  Mean, Denial, Pretending

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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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• Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

  Max De Pree

  Thinking, Risk, Growth

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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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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• True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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• When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Typewriters, Doors

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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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• I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

  Dan Abrams

  Thinking, Issues, Prejudice

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• I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.

  Henrietta Rose-Innes

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  "'I had an inkling I might win'". Interview with Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.

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• You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.

  Albert Kanene Obiefuna

  Humble, Humility, Losing

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• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Exercise

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Lazy, Important

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• The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Baby, Pain

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.96, Penguin

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• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Giving, Effort, Events

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• There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Liberty, Finals

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, Want, Way

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• Life is only complete when your loved ones know you. When they know your true feelings, when they know who and how you love. Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret.

  Robbie Rogers

  Pain, Love Life, Gay

  "'My secret is gone': Former Leeds midfielder and US international comes out as gay" by Paul Cockerton, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2013.

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