#avoid

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. ↗

— John Whiting

#bit #couples #drastic #excellent #get

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#becoming #book #famous #guide #had

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#avoid #pain #touc #life

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#fire #hurt #love #pain #love

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#decisions #ideas #life #significance #thinking

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#duty #his #making #making up #mind

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#brick #evolve #hit #level #next

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. ↗

— Alan Alda

#avoid #change #dog #go #into

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#avoiding #each #equals #means #offense