Avoiding Quotes

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Forgive my indifference; I'd rather be distant than devastated.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“The art of a successful business lies in identifying and mitigating the risk. Not overlooking and avoiding the risk.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“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.”
― Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence

“Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I am much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“She hadn’t been avoiding him all these years because she was shy. No, she was head over heels in love with him.”
― Mathewson R.L. 20121029 . Checkmate A Neighbor from Hell Kindle Locations 53155321 .

“Run With Me: The only thing I know for sure is this: there's no hiding. If you don't face your issues this round, you'll inevitably face them again.”
― Helen S. Rosenau, The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier

“No matter how busy you become in life, you'll always find time for people who're too busy avoiding you.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I don't think of it as avoiding, he said. I think of it as another opportunity to practice ignoring things that bug me.
—Steady Practice”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“Bypassing the issue does not solve the root causes of that issue, it just makes a person feel better until the issue reappears in different ways or in different parts of the body.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life, you know.” His mother smiled at him and sat across the table, spreading her papers around as if they were a tablecloth made of silken letters.”
― Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us

“I meant all the way to Lady Armitage’s house, which will be the climax of our efforts. Once I have my amulet, you can withdraw.”
Alex laughed. “Oh dear, I do love you,” he said—
And silence clamped down between them.
“Um,” he added, pushing a hand through his hair. “Metaphorically
speaking, of course.”
“Of course,” Charlotte agreed hastily. She realized she had stopped walking, possibly because her heart seemed to have stopped beating; she
began to stride once more along the street. “Do not look so concerned on
my behalf, Captain. It is a common enough statement. For example, I
myself love that house there with the wooden shutters. I love tea. I love
you, and your smile, and the way you sigh in your sleep. See, common.
Unconcerning. We are still enemies.”
“Mortal enemies,” he agreed, smiling rather self-consciously.”
― India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches

“[When] I've been neglecting writing in my journal, usually this kind of avoidance is a sign I need to actually face the page.

A solid self-leadership check-in: With loving awareness I ask myself:
- What am I hiding from myself?
- What am I holding on to?
- Who am I being invited to become?”
― Benjamin Brown

“I will be avoiding the Boeing 737 Max for at least two years after it resumes operation.”
― Steven Magee

“Until I see President Trump routinely flying on a Boeing 737 Max, I will be avoiding it.”
― Steven Magee

“Avoiding a lie is the purity of your conscience. The expression of truth, with morals, decency, modesty, and love, is the fragrance of your discipline, attitude, character, and language.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Spiritual bypassing
separates us from our humanity and all its messiness and struggles
and pain and It makes us feel good briefly.”
― Karl Forehand, Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

“Oh Dear
You will never
Know the pain
Your girl has
Suffered”
― Jennifer West, Jennifer Bares All

“There’s no such thing as running away from the problem. They’re very patient and will wait a lifetime for you.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Sometimes avoiding the consequence is the very thing that I would be most foolish to avoid.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The bane of my fear is that it compels me to avoid everything that I fear, which means that I’m going to avoid just about everything in life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Deliberately avoiding crucial issues is an escape from responsibility.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Fiction as a means of avoiding fact is the fiction of fiction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The explosive decompression of the Boeing 737 Max 9 is expected to lead to airline travelers avoiding the window seats.”
― Steven Magee

“Avoid living a life where you're dead.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I was a great believer in the age-old idea of Avoiding Something Until It Blows Up In Your Face.”
― T.J. Klune, The Queen & the Homo Jock King