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  • The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

    Let Us Have Faith (1940)
  • The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  • We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

    Pain   Animal   Class  
  • Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

    Peace   Freedom   Hate  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”
  • There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.
  • You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

    Life   Meaningful   Peace  
  • Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.

    Hurt   Pain   Giving Up  
    Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan
  • You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

    "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

    Pain   Motivation   Past  
  • Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

    Pain   Feelings   Energy  
  • I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

    Pain   Water   Settling  
  • Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin
  • The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

    Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)
  • Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

    Art   Pain   Yoga  
  • If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

    Pain   Fear   Taken  
    Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”
  • Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

  • The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

    Art   Pain   Rocks  
    Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.51
  • Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed experience or some unexpressed and important part of who we are. Whatever we have denied may stop us and dam the creative flow of our lives. Avoiding pain, we may linger in the vicinity of our wounds, sometime for many years, gathering the courage to experience them.

    Pain   Integrity   Years  
  • For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

    Pain   Degrees   Action  
    Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.23, Penguin Canada
  • You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  • Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

  • You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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