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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

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure. — Gina Greenlee

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf. — Maggie Stiefvater

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. — Nell Newman

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. — Anne Lamott

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television. — Paulo Coelho

The shadow demons (fears) you've been avoiding keep you stuck in a rut, a prisoner in your own life - it's time to break free and shine! — Sharon Kirstin

I'd never been so mesmerized or captivated or drawn to any guy in my life. Heck, I'd been avoiding guys like the plague. — Priya Kanaparti

Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I'm counting them as blessings? — Barbara Kingsolver

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. — Michael Leunig

You can't find peace by avoiding life. — Michael Cunningham

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

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

My life is an abstract life. I am avoiding it everyday and it's avoiding me everyday. — Shankar Lamichhane

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. — Richard Yates

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

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

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position. — Drake

Avoiding other people was his new goal in life. — James Dashner

Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose — Sunday Adelaja

Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it. — Kelly Zygmunt

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. — Thomas Jefferson

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. — Ayn Rand

Life is not about avoiding fear but about overcoming fear. — Debasish Mridha

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life. — Tony Dovale

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

Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot. — Manoj Arora

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

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life. — Joe Bradley

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. — Wendy Beckett

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

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live — Paulo Coelho

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

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine

You don't find light by avoiding the darkness. — S. Kelley Harrell

Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it. — Sumit Singh

I think ... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. — Neil Gaiman

Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you ... and I
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me? — Santonu Kumar Dhar

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard. — Michael Cunningham

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure, — Michael Bloomberg

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

If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change. — Brad Thor

The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill. — Russ Harris

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. — Eli Roth

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley

Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life. — Pattie Boyd

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

the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain — Henri Cole

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. — Norman Vincent Peale