You cannot find peace and happiness by avoiding life…
- You can’t find peace by avoiding life. Michael Cunningham
- You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it. Jerry Stahl
- However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life. Teresa of Avila
- You don’t have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists. Frederick Lenz
- The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don’t participate. Chuck Palahniuk
- Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart’s bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don’t let it harden you. Wilhelm Reich
- We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say? Michel de Montaigne
- The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it. Robert Anthony
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…be it avoiding problems…
- Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. Paulo Coelho
- Never let life’s hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. Nichiren
- The key to happiness – as any good fairy godmother will tell you – is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them. Janette Rallison
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…change…
- Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change. Jack Kornfield
- Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change. Jack Kornfield
- Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose. Neale Donald Walsch
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….mistakes and failure…
- People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life’s biggest mistakes. Noah Weinberg
- I think failure is just a part of life. You can’t avoid it in anything. I just accept it as a part of life and something that’s going to happen, and you use it to grow. You use it, you learn from it, and you grow from it. Daniella Alonso
- Mistakes are a part of life; you can’t avoid them. Lee Iacocca
- It’s a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life… But I’m beginning to consider it. Charles M. Schulz
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…risk and danger…
- Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers. Indira Gandhi
- Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis Waitley
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…pain and even suffering…
- You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. Ayn Rand
- The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not? Jiddu Krishnamurti
- We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other. Joko Beck
- You can’t avoid pain in life. It’s how you handle pain, that’s what defines you. Marc Maron
- You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt. Iyanla Vanzant
- People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure. Tony Robbins
- LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain – grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless. Sathya Sai Baba
- We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other. Joko Beck
- Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us. Wayne Muller
- To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. Woody Allen
- But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. Paulo Coelho
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…criticism…
- The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life and let others spend their time criticising. Ricky Gervais
- To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
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…making tough choices…
- Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose. Robert Breault
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…conflict…
- If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself. Cheryl Richardson
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…fear…
- Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear. Bernie Glassman
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…challenge and struggle…
- No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life. Esther Williams
- Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier
- All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI
- It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph! Pio of Pietrelcina
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…or death
- It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. Ayn Rand
- Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death. Otto Rank
- To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. Rajneesh
