#avoid

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#encounter #even #events #hide #in the past

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#american dream #avoidance #commitment #dream #ending

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#best #best way #danger #meet #way

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#conforming #contradict #forced #i #my own

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. ↗

— P.D. James

#humor #humour #love #theo #humor

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

The avoiding, in many times and places, has proved so difficult that a very large part of the human race failed to achieve it. But in our own time and place it is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully, but you’d be safer to stick to the papers. You’ll find the advertisements helpful; especially those with a sexy or snobbish appeal. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#distraction #god #spiritual-intimacy #money

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

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#avoid #been #being #career #grow