204 Quotes About Avoidance

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

Tilly screamed. Anna’s shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem? She recognized her fixation on this irritation as her own way of avoiding the horror in front of her, but only in a distant and dreamy sort of way.

Spiritual bypassingseparates us from our humanity and all its messiness and strugglesand pain and It makes us feel good briefly.

The more I remember, the more inconsolable I will be, I've told myself. But now increasingly I don't tussle with my memories. I want to remember. I want to know. Perhaps I can better tolerate being inconsolable now. Perhaps I suspect that remembering won't make me any more inconsolable. Or less.

Is this truth too potent for me to hold? If I keep it close, will I tumble? At times, I don't know.