Avoidance is a common behavior when anxiety strikes and learning how to cope through an approach rather than avoidance is an important tool. Avoidance can be frustrating to others; habitually using avoidance strategies can create conflict in relationships and minimize social support.
Avoidance sometimes looks like the best option. It provides temporary relief from anxiety, shame, and other uncomfortable feelings. This is a form of emotional control, and controlling thoughts and feelings can have unintended consequences. Though it is never the solution.
This is a collection of 27 quotes and sayings on avoidance.
Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve. -
Tony Dungy
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth. - Adyashanti
Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy. - Seth
Klarman
People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable
change-avoidance strategy. - Andy Stanley
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse. - Umar
The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it. - Henry Watson Fowler
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time,
to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. - Friedrich Nietzsche
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things.
You can gain much more power by meditating. - Frederick Lenz
Avoidance is a wonderful therapy. - Maggie Stiefvater
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue
is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. - Gilbert K.
Chesterton
Choosing to avoid uncomfortable feelings offers immediate short-term relief,
but avoidance can lead to long-term consequences. - Amy Morin
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the
vices that do not attract us. - Robert Staughton Lynd
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far
advanced as to make avoidance impossible. - Thomas Hardy
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. - Seth
Klarman
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the
pursuit of pleasure. - Deepak Chopra
Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business
entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial,
unimportant work. - Rory Vaden
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. - Orrin
Woodward
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas
anxiety does not. - Albert Bandura
Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence. -
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy. - Seth
Klarman
Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of
disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures. - David Livermore
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. -
Timothy Leary
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. - Shannon
Wheeler
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds
you to the personal self. - Frederick Lenz
There is no avoidance in delay. - Aeschylus
The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money. -
Robert Kiyosaki
It’s not avoidance if you actively plan to pursue it. Someday. - T.J. Klune
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance. - Carl Jung
Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict. - Bryant McGill
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