Love Avoiding Quotes

#1. Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Ovid

#2. I hold him close, and don't even question the love I feel for him. I can't. It's heavy and palpable. It's everything I have been missing and makes up for all the time I had been avoiding what was in me. What I was. What I am.

E.K. Blair

#3. Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Sylvia Kristel

#5. Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people "no darn good any way". People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn't hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.

Henry Cloud

#6. What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Virginia Woolf

#7. A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

Paul Washer

#8. Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it

Frances Ivy

#10. What I'd truly been avoiding was love, the strongest binding there is, and the pain that scrapes at your insides when the bond is forcefully broken.

Kevin Hearne

#11. Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

William, Saroyan

#12. I have been running for so long. Since before all this even started. Even back in the Stilts, I was a runner. Avoiding my family, my fate, anything I didn't want to feel. And I am still racing now. From those who would kill me - and those who would love.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Julie Kenner

#14. Knowing who to love is more important than possessing love or avoiding hate.

Daniel Marques

#15. When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

Jack Kornfield

#16. These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

Drake

#17. Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you ... and I
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#18. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Jane Green

#19. To love God with our hearts and our minds, let's resolve to glorify God by not being women who fool others or who are easily fooled ourselves. Avoiding a bad thought day depends on it.

Patty Houser

#20. It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses.

Jeff Lemire

#21. We weren't perfect for each other- I knew that then as much as I know it now- but we worked together around our problems, mainly avoiding them, though to us that was the best way. We snuck around our problems like criminals in the night. But, aren't we all criminals in love?

Leigh Hershkovich

#22. Life is not about avoiding fear but about overcoming fear.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

Jodi Picoult

#24. We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

Adam Berlin

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

P.D. James

#26. When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Marguerite Gardiner

#27. Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Jim Hightower

#28. Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Luis Bunuel

#29. Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Kristin Cashore

#30. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn