Quotes About Avoiding Feelings

#1. The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

Russ Harris

#2. Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

Leigh Newman

#3. An artist is someone who makes art ... He didn't invent it ...

Willem De Kooning

#4. Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

Rick Perlstein

#5. I couldn't tell anyone how I felt. I had learned not to feel, or at least not to tell anyone about my feelings. It was a matter of survival, avoiding and enduring.

John E. Monaco

#6. Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

Brene Brown

#7. The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.

Vironika Tugaleva

#8. If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Garry Marshall

#9. The white man had invented glasses which made objects too near or too far, cameras, telescopes, spyglasses, objects which put glass between living and vision. It was the image he sought to possess, not the texture, the living warmth, the human closeness.

Anais Nin

#10. [The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

Justin Halpern

#11. Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Suzi Quatro

#12. I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#13. If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#14. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

#15. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

M. Scott Peck

#16. The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Branch Rickey

#17. I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

Ellen DeGeneres

#18. Embrace the sacredness of a new day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Rise baby rise. Don't let the bad things happening in your life...keep you down. Bring the warrior out of your soul and keep moving forward in life. Don't look back at the pain. Look forward to the joy and pleasure ahead. Great things are awaiting for you down the road...if you believe!

Timothy Pina

#20. There are times I almost believe that anything possible to be done should be done, not just because it's good or makes sense, simply because it's possible.

Sandor Marai

#21. I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

Judith Wright

#22. Sex can be renounced
but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

Sallie Tisdale

#23. Avoiding feelings isn't the same as protecting feelings.

Sheryl Sandberg