Quotes about Avoidance

Don't get me wrong: grief sucks, it really does. Unfortunately, though, avoiding it robs us of life, of the now, of a sense of living spirit.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

It's like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course we want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

When we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God?

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

It is easier to stay out than to get out.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.