#avoid

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#being #combination #coming #could #dumb

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#attention #avoid #because #draws #either

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#clear #gain #order #pain #pleasure

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#avoid #better #things

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#europe #islamic #state #wanted #west

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#against #around #avoiding #because #causing

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#avoid #business #countries #honor #interfering

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies - unconscious strategies- to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too - sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling - and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. You know how in couples one person is always doing all the weeping or the raging while the other one seems so calm and reasonable? I understood that feelings were difficult for me although I was overwhelmed by them. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#avoidance #feelings #inadequate #life #living-life

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. ↗

— Edward Norton

#element #faced #life #like #poker

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward. ↗

— Andy Summers

#forward #goes #hard #past