Quotes About Avoiding Pain

#1. I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

Nir Eyal

#3. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Noah Levine

#4. The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

R.D. Laing

#6. We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

#7. The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

Leonard Jacobson

#8. the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain

Henri Cole

#9. The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Robert Trout

#10. Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

Liz Miller

#11. If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Albert Einstein

#12. Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Bryant McGill

#13. Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?"
"It sets a dangerous precedent."
"For avoiding pain?"
"For avoiding life.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. 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

#15. All beings are conscious and have their own conscious experience. All living things have similar goals of obtaining nourishment, seeking companionship and avoiding pain.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#16. Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.

Toni Morrison

#17. Not just pain, but bullshit. Avoiding bullshit.

Robert Greene

#18. 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

#19. 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.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#20. You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

#21. One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

Marianne Williamson

#22. When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.

Bryant McGill

#23. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

Stephen Richards

#24. Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.

Jaeda DeWalt

#25. 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

#26. Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

Gina Greenlee

#27. 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

#28. It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

Geneen Roth

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.

John Earle

#32. Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

Ludwig Von Mises

#33. You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

Meg Collett

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

Kristin Cashore

#35. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

Robin Hobb