Quotes about Avoidance

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.

In the meantime, let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. This specter, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to mistrust and avoid it.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.