204 Quotes About Avoidance

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

She often avoided conflicts by ignoring facts.

What I’ve deemed as impossible is more the fiction I’ve created to avoid the failure I fear.

Summer would not last forever; he knew it and Ronia knew it. But now they began to live as if it would, and as far as possible they pushed away all painful thoughts of winter.

Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger.

It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly, is that they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.