204 Quotes About Avoidance

Life isn’t in our brain // It flows through our veins. Just a little cut to drain out the galaxies that keep me up tonight. Just a little cut and all this goes away. Just a little cut and no more thoughts. No memories. No pain. I mean screw nostalgia. I don’t want it. Take it back!

I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

What is sitting behind your judgments? What fears are you coddling?

Now to think of concrete as both natural and artificial demands a greater degree of mental agility than most of us can manage. So much is invested in the absoluteness of this distinction between natural and artificial , so necessary is it to our whole cosmology, that to admit that something can be both of these would be just too anxious-inducing. To avoid this, we habitually operate on the assumption that concrete is just artificial, or alternatively, just natural, but never both.

Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think about, only now whatever it was is worse.

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

We are all a little broken. What separates us, though, is crystal clear. Acceptance and continuous attempts at growth or avoidance and sitting stagnant. I choose acceptance and growth. What do you choose?".