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I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts. — Steve Earle

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society. — Michael Haneke

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. — Seth Godin

Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it. — Jessica Joelle Alexander

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's no avoiding it: the patterns we cultivate shape the person we each become. — Brad Lomenick

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. — Rutherford B. Hayes

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. — David Allen

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason. — Helen Keller

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether. — Mark Dever

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. — Rachel Kushner

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain. — Nir Eyal

If you keep avoiding the forces that can defeat you, you may never learn your true power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint. — William Beckett

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. — Elizabeth Bibesco

He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking. — Leo Tolstoy

Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality. — Gloria Arenson

There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. — Pope Francis

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side. — Michele Jennae

Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out. — Katherine McIntyre

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding — Stieg Larsson

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Saul Steinberg

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

I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me. — Murray Bartlett

For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And — Ted Chiang

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive. — John Gielgud

It's not the first time I should be dead, Bast. I'm a fair hand at avoiding it. — Patrick Rothfuss

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. — Stephen Chbosky

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either. — Rebecca Hall

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of. — David D. Burns

There is superstition in avoiding superstition. — Francis Bacon

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past. — Henry B. Eyring

I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that's the key to avoiding crazy weight gain. — Molly Sims

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic; — Erwin Schrodinger

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you. — Fred Thompson

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. — M. Scott Peck

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU. — Steve Maraboli

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS. — Laura Bush

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris

We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them. — Wally Olins

The best way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing — Thabiso Monkoe

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Smart people don't learn ... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing. — Chris Argyris

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. — P. J. O'Rourke

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle. — Amit Ray

If you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners — James Patterson

I learned to smile, avoiding happiness advice. — Brian Spellman

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you. — Taylor Swift

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. — Edsger Dijkstra

Instead of avoiding attention they invited it — Helen Rappaport

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. — Albert Camus

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere. — Brene Brown

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. — Max Euwe

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. — Plato

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. — Craig Armstrong

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden. — Margaret Way

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her. — Brian Francis

Avoiding mistakes is simple. Just never attempt anything difficult. — Ralph Moore

[...]avoiding mistakes, looking for a way to make life perfect isn't reality. Reality is mistakes, failures, and heartache. — Kristen Kehoe

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. — Ilona Andrews

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. — John Frusciante

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. — Syd Barrett

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. — Bill Johnson

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.

~Shin — Ai Yazawa

When are you going to admit that you are avoiding me because you're hot for me?"
"When hell freezes over."
Trevor-Raven — Ellen Schreiber

Your chances of avoiding the nursing home are directly related to the number of children you have, — Atul Gawande

Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels. — The Covert Comic

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen

Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions. — Gever Tulley

Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. — R.D. Laing

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. — John Grisham

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference. — Seth Godin

Fate is a lazy man's excuse for avoiding curiosity. — Brian Farrey

Why would he do that? I thought
he said
he loved me." "As if I needed a reason to hate him more," Asher muttered, avoiding my gaze. — Jocelyn Davies

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. — Edward Tufte

Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training — Robert A. Heinlein

Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food. — Tosca Reno

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. — Kristin Cashore

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah

I honestly begin every single day with the intention of avoiding people. — Morrissey

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art. — Gustave Flaubert

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible. — Toni Morrison

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy. — Kevin Drum

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time. — Bo Bennett

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. — Timothy Ferriss

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. — Audre Lorde

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett

Feeling better doesn't come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood. — Meg Jay

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory. — Bill O'Reilly

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done. — Ralph Marston

Just say yes, Lily. Why try avoiding the unavoidable?"
Ah, why indeed! — Ramona Wray