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Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Alaric Hutchinson Acceptance Accountability Avoidance Bravery Compassion Conflict Resolution Consciousness Courage Giving Growth Inner Peace Inspirational Listening Love Pain Peace Peace Of Mind Peace On Earth Present Moment Psychology Relationships Showing Up Spiritual Uncomfortable Wisdom Words Of Wisdom Words To Live By Zen

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Barriers Challenges Consequences Deceived Denial Hope Ignorance Ignore Misleading Misled Misplaced Obstacles Repercussions Retreat Stupid Stupidity

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

~ Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho Avoidance Benefits Classification Doors Exploitation Friends Friendship Hypocrisy Life Lessons Loyalty People Selection Social Classes Social Gaps Social Ladder Society

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

~ B.f. Skinner

B.f. Skinner Avoidance Behavioral Learn Psychology Punishment Science

To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Authentic Authenticity Avoid Avoidance Brave Bravery Denial Fake False Fear Forthright Frank Honest Honesty Pretend Real Truth Truthful

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Denial Deny Destination Elude Escape Fear Fearful Flee Frightened Goal Hide Intention Intentional Lost Purposeful Run Scared Wandering

I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Born Calling Destiny Escape Fake False Fear Flee Grave Mission Play Roles Run Stage Wasted

If you pay attention, you may find that it is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable, so you avoid doing the thing that will evoke fear and other disquieting emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

~ Harriet Lerner

Harriet Lerner Avoidance Fear

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Avoidant Existence Fear Fearful Frightened Life Living Opportunities Possibilities Quality Of Life Retreat Risk Risky

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Apathetic Apathy Avoid Avoidance Comfort Comfortable Fear Fearful Mediocre Mediocrity Passive

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Challenges Challenging Comfort Comfortable Excellence Familiarity Fear Laziness Lazy Mediocrity Retreat Routine Stance Withdraw Withdrawal

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Circle Circular Courage Destiny Fear Flee Fleeing Goal Goals Journey Mission Run Running

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Coward Cowardice Fear Fright Goal Goal Setting Goals Guidance Misdirection Misstep Objective Objectives

Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work, it’s just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.

~ Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams Avoidance Fear Memory

If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself into many different, false, identities, but, because she loathed lying and deceit, she chose to absent herself completely rather than go through such a charade. Highsmith interpreted this characteristic as an example of 'the eternal hypocrisy in me', rather her mental shape-shifting had its source in her quite extraordinary ability to empathise. Her imaginative capacity to subsume her own identity, while taking on the qualities of those around her - her negative capability, if you like - was so powerful that she said she often felt like her inner visions were far more real than the outside world. She aligned herself with the mad and the miserable, 'the insane man who feels himself one with all mankind, all life, because in losing his mind, he has lost his ego, his self-ness', yet realised that such a state inspired her fiction. Her ambition, she said, was to write about the underlying sickness of this 'daedal planet' and capture the essence of the human condition: eternal disappointment.

~ Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson Ambition Autism Avoid Avoidance Charade Contact Deceit Disappointment Ego Empathise Empathy Fiction Human Hypocrisy Identities Identity Imagination Insane Life Loathe Lying Mad Mankind Mind Miserable Outside People Planet Self Ness Sickness Split Subsume Vision Visions

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Avoidance Change Difference Fight Start Talking Taboo Thirsty

Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

~ Sharon Weil

Sharon Weil Avoidance Be The Change Change Community Course Course Correction Help Learning Learning Process Mistake Mistakes Shame Shameless Sharon Weil Strategy Support

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Abandon Abandonment Accountability Accountable Avoid Avoidance Christian Christianity Denial Deny Find Flee Futile God Ignorant Ignore Lonely Meaningless Meaninglessness Myself Nothing Nothingness Places Run Self Surrender Surrendering Time

The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Bible Christian Christianity Deify Diminish Elevate God Humanize Idol Idolize Worst

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

~ Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Avoidance Ignorance Illusion Intelligence Self Deception

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Denial History Memory Past Recall Recalling Remember Remembering Wisdom

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Avoidance Christ Distraction Earth Fear Galaxy God Humanity Life Love Need People Universe Want World

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

~ James Richardson

James Richardson Avoidance Work

17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.

~ James C. Dobson

James C. Dobson Activity Avoidance Balance Be But Extremes Find Food Found Harmful Imbalance Important In Is It Life Living Make Middle Ground Need Not Of One Only Our Overeat Play Rather Referring Rule Safety Secrets Should Successful Than The Throughout To Us We Will Word Work

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

~ R.d. Laing

R.d. Laing Avoidance Healing Pain Painful Recovery

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Vironika Tugaleva Avoidance Emotional Pain Emotions Healing Healing The Past Pain Vulnerability

A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Anguish Avoidance Avoiding Pain Escaping From Reality Escapism Pain Painful Past Painful Situation Personal Development Philosophy Philosophy Of Life Suffering Suffering Life Suffering Of Humanity Suffering Quote

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

~ Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb Avoid Avoidance Break Burn Crash Deny Disappointment Enemy Fall Fear Hope Hurt Ignore Look Away Pain Time Weight

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

~ Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Avoidance Fire Grief Odd Thomas Pain Purifying Suffering

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Authentic Avoid Avoidance Fabrication Fantasy Genuine Life Reality

Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Escape Existence Fantasy Flee Flight Life Reality

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28)

~ António R. Damásio

António R. Damásio Avoidance Body Denial Hidden Life Mind Screen Self Preservation Self Protection Veil

There is no avoidance in delay.

~ Aeschylus

Aeschylus Action Avoidance Courage Delay Resolve

What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve yet to realize that with God, the blessings will always and forever eclipse whatever I fear despite how absolutely imposing those fears might be

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Accountability Avoidance Blessings Courage Fears God

There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger.

~ Caitlyn Paige

Caitlyn Paige Avoidance Ignorance Life Problems Reality

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Anticipation Avoidance Disappointment Expectations Guilt Happiness Idealism Joy Negativity Opportunist Optimism Pessimism Positivity Realism Rejoice Surprise

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Adult Avoidance Child Children Denial Honesty Immature Immaturity Maturation Maturity Wisdom

The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Avoidance Child Abuse Childhood Trauma Crazy Denial Madness Psychology Psychotherapy Self Knowledge Therapy Trauma Unhealthy

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Avoidance Child Abuse Denial Psychology Trauma

The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Abhor Apologetics Avoidance Brain Chore Cognition Contemplation Distractions Emotional Emotional Work Exhaustion Fear Grinding Hard Labor Hard Work Hate Hustling Illogical Irrational Labor Logical Mental Mental Work Philosophy Physical Physical Labor Physical Work Psychology Rational Stress Task Thinker Thinking Thought Work
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