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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. -- Thomas Jefferson
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. -- R. D. Laing
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
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
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
Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses. -- Leigh Newman
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
Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture. -- Liz Miller
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment. -- Leonard Jacobson
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
When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth. -- Bryant McGill
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
The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires. -- Noah Levine
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects. -- Catherine Wilson
Just "¦ isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, "?This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?" "It sets a dangerous precedent." "For avoiding pain?" "For avoiding life. -- Rainbow Rowell

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