76 Quotes About Flee

Fear ordinarily does not lead to illness if the organism can flee successfully . If the individual cannot flee, but is forced to remain in a conflict situation which cannot be resolved, fear may turn into anxiety and psychosomatic changes may then accompany e anxiety.

The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.

For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated...We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246)

There is time for a fight and a time for a flight; knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death

Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing.

If I took the energy that I expend in running from my problems and used that energy to face those problems, I probably wouldn’t have a problem and I wouldn’t be out of breath either.

We all flee from somethings and the ports we anchored are mostly not the ports we wished to be, but they are the ports we have been dragged on while we're fleeing from the things we fear!

Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from.

Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty--even when the guilty party is himself. The young Jonah hijacks written Torah to condemn everyone--even himself.