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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. -- Helen Keller
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. -- Paulo Coelho
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. -- Syd Barrett
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. -- Virginia Woolf
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. -- Joey Adams
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. -- George Burns
Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. -- Linus Torvalds
Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. -- Pope Francis
You can't find peace by avoiding life. -- Michael Cunningham
You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard. -- Michael Cunningham
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television. -- Paulo Coelho
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. -- Ayn Rand
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. -- John Guare
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. -- Thomas Jefferson
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. -- Paul Tillich
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy. -- Frederick Lenz
Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. -- Ayn Rand
Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether. -- Mark Dever
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. -- Deepak Chopra
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier. -- John Eisenhower
There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test. -- Lady Violet
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered -- Mindy Kaling
Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it. -- Seth Klarman
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -- Helen Keller
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. -- Susan Sontag
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
Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. -- Stefan Sagmeister
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. -- Steve Redgrave
Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again. -- Susan Vaught
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
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
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
Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy. -- Scott D. Anthony
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. -- Thomas Jefferson
Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge. -- Steven Callahan
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Sakya Pandita
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common, -- Robin Givhan
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are. -- Frederick Lenz
But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen. -- Pope Francis
Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well.Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child. -- Lisa Coyne
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic -- George Washington
Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man. -- Kim Harrison
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. -- Albert Einstein
Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live. -- T. Colin Campbell
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages. -- Tom Regan
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death. -- Philip Yancey
Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it. -- John Earle
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.' -- Joyce Meyer
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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
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
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them. -- Judith Wright
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Sakya Pandita
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation. -- Suze Orman
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. -- Lorraine Toussaint
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. -- Terry Pratchett
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' -- Tom Cruise
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it. -- Georges St-Pierre
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm. -- Rob Manuel
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so. -- David A. Bednar
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. -- Marianne Williamson
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. -- James Surowiecki
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. -- Edsger Dijkstra
There is superstition in avoiding superstition. -- Francis Bacon
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. -- Henry Petroski
Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. -- Brandon Mull
People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity. -- Adam Carolla
Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure! -- Edwina Findley
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. -- Danielle Steel
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you. -- Wayne Dyer
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. -- Robert Cecil
Instead of avoiding criticisms, make criticisms workfor you. -- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. -- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work. -- Elbert Hubbard
My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work. -- Prince Philip
Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. -- John D. MacDonald
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. -- Arthur Helps
The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity -- Robin Sharma
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. -- Benjamin Graham
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. -- Audre Lorde
I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.~Shin -- Ai Yazawa
I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. -- Ani DiFranco
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good. -- John of the Cross
Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure, -- Michael Bloomberg
To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. -- Stephen Chbosky
Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. -- Albert Camus
There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you. -- Taylor Swift
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. -- Horace
Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering. -- Gene Edwards
The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches. -- Alexey Brodovitch
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. -- Cyril Connolly
Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. -- Seth Godin
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. -- Antoine Rivarol
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. -- Julie Kenner
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. -- Sylvia Kristel
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors. -- Evan Esar
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. -- Alexandra David-Neel
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation. -- John Cleese
Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility. -- James Redfield
We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire. -- Charlie Munger
When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth. -- Bryant McGill
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. -- Zig Ziglar
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. -- Horace
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things. -- Patricia C. Wrede
If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable. -- Mardy Grothe

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