Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will."
Avoiding quotes
Avoiding
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Cesare Pavese
Poet, Novelist
"We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it."
Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding."
Robin Sharma
Author, Speaker
"The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity"
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"We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire."
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"When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding."
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"If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy."
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"There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now."
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"Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better."
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"Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life."
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"It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse."
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"Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television."
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"I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint."
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"There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you."
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"Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change."
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"If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram."
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"There is superstition in avoiding superstition."
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"You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you."
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