'Avoidance' Ideas

I’ve always been scared to death of pain – afraid, even, to think of it.

Loretta Young

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

Irvin D. Yalom

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

R. D. Laing

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Rajneesh

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Mason Cooley

Frivolity is the species’ refusal to suffer.

John Lahr

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

John C. Maxwell

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

Achievement Deserving Success

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Deception Perception Reality

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Jean Cocteau

Identity Individuality Rebellion

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about.

Charlie Munger

Worry

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

Charlie Munger

Criticism Past Stupidity

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