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“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our interpretations. A lucid reading of our acts and our desires helps us to avoid tumbling into a frustrating gap between what we expect and what others expect. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)”
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“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“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.”
― Simply Love
― Simply Love
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”
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“I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.”
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“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.”
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“All goals or motivations fit within two categories: approach or avoid.
For instance, going to work because you don’t want to lose your house is an avoidance-driven goal. Going to work to get a promotion is more approach- motivated.
Your reason or goal, whether positive or negative, approach or avoidance motivated, is the driver of your thoughts, energy, and actions.
In all instances, humans act as we do based on the future we see for ourselves. That may be a future we’re trying to avoid, or a future we’re trying to create.”
― Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
For instance, going to work because you don’t want to lose your house is an avoidance-driven goal. Going to work to get a promotion is more approach- motivated.
Your reason or goal, whether positive or negative, approach or avoidance motivated, is the driver of your thoughts, energy, and actions.
In all instances, humans act as we do based on the future we see for ourselves. That may be a future we’re trying to avoid, or a future we’re trying to create.”
― Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
“I have had so many negative interactions with electrical utility workers that I now avoid interacting with them!”
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“Since the advent of bright LED streetlights and car headlights, I avoid driving after dark.”
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“Give it no time, effort, or attention if it doesn't bring harmony, wealth, good energy, or a sense of purpose. Preserve your energy and dignity. Avoid defiling your conscience.”
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“We definitely need to educate the next generation about the toxicity of jobs and which ones to avoid.”
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“Having realized how police harassment works, I now avoid going to places where I may encounter police officers.”
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“I had an unfortunate encounter with mean staff at the high altitude Denver International Airport that ruined my vacation and I now avoid Colorado.”
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“The main reason that we work so hard to refute the truth is our fear that it might actually exist.”
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“The suffering that accompanies nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, fever, fatigue, pain, anxiety, and low mood motivates escape from a current bad situation and avoidance of future similar situations. Individuals who do not experience physical pain accumulate injuries and usually die by early adulthood. People who don’t feel bad when pursuing unreachable goals spend their lives in contented useless efforts. More low mood might help their genes, but a clinic to boost low mood would be about as popular as a clinic to help people feel more anxious.”
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes.”
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“অনেক লোক বিশ্বাস করে যে ইগনোরেন্স ইজ ব্লিস কারণ কিছু না জানা সুখ আনতে পারে। বাস্তবে, এটি প্রায়শই বোঝায় যে জীবনে কিছু জিনিস বা মানুষকে এড়িয়ে চলাটা সুখের দিকে নিয়ে যেতে পারে!”
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“Beware of people – who underestimate others because of their feelings of inadequacy – when confronted with them, avoid taking it personally.”
“লোকদের থেকে সাবধান থাকুন- যারা তাদের অপর্যাপ্ততার অনুভূতির কারণে অন্যদের অবমূল্যায়ন করে- যখন তাদের সাথে মুখোমুখি হন – ব্যক্তিগতভাবে নেওয়া এড়িয়ে চলুন।”
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“লোকদের থেকে সাবধান থাকুন- যারা তাদের অপর্যাপ্ততার অনুভূতির কারণে অন্যদের অবমূল্যায়ন করে- যখন তাদের সাথে মুখোমুখি হন – ব্যক্তিগতভাবে নেওয়া এড়িয়ে চলুন।”
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“not so much inspirational as a warning:
Avoid processes that can turn the world into “gray goo.”
― Just Over the Horizon
Avoid processes that can turn the world into “gray goo.”
― Just Over the Horizon
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