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1. “Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.”

Susan Cain

Avoidance, Small Talk, Social Strategies, Introverted Behavior, Personal Comfort

2. “You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!”

Douglas Adams

Responsibility, Avoidance, Existence, Accountability, Advice

3. “Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”

Michel de Montaigne

Self-reflection, Escapism, Future, Human Nature, Avoidance

4. “Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Avoidance, Consequences, Introspection, Anxiety, Emotional Health

5. “Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.”

Jack Kerouac

Nihilism, Avoidance, Meaninglessness, World-weariness, Escapism

6. “People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”

Aldous Huxley

Work, Self-deception, Human Nature, Avoidance, Introspection, Psychological Insight

7. “Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”

Aldous Huxley

Thinking, Avoidance, Consciousness, Distraction, Self-awareness, Mental Escape

8. “I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”

Hermann Hesse

Self, Distaste, Journey, Avoidance, Personal Growth, Introspection

9. “Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”

John Keats

Fresh Experience, Learned Errors, Careful Avoidance, Experience, Errors, Avoidance

10. “Oh, boys, don’t be sentimental; it’s bad for the digestion!”

Herman Melville

Sentimental Avoidance, Health Advice, Sentimental, Health, Digestion, Avoidance

11. “Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.”

Robert Greene

Strategic Restraint, Personal Boundaries, Focused Action, Avoidance, Discipline, Control

12. “Once envy reveals itself for what it is, the only solution is often to flee the presence of the enviers, leaving them to stew in a hell of their own creation.”

Robert Greene

Envy Solution, Toxic Avoidance, Envious Presence, Envy, Avoidance, Presence

13. “Never discriminate as to whom you study and whom you trust. Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including friends and loved ones.”

Robert Greene

Trust Caution, Study Everyone, Discrimination Avoidance, Trust, Study, Avoidance

14. “Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.”

Brene Brown

Fear Avoidance, Emotional Growth, Vulnerability Lessons, Avoidance, Growth, Lessons

15. “People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power.”

Brene Brown

Pain Avoidance, Power Abuse, Emotional Coping, Pain, Power, Avoidance

16. “The most productive people don’t let themselves be distracted by email, text messages, or social media notifications.”

Cal Newport

Productivity Principles, Distraction Avoidance, Focus Strategies, Productivity, Avoidance, Focus

17. “Always a good dodge to simplify your problem by removing it.”

Henry Miller

Problem-solving, Life Simplification, Practical Wisdom, Clarity, Strategy, Avoidance

18. “Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”

Henry Miller

Avoidance Consequences, Inner Denial, Self Defeat, Avoidance, Consequences, Denial

19. “When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That’s what I wanted to avoid.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Emotional Restraint, Avoided Sentiment, Existential Realism, Drunkenness, Sentiment, Avoidance

20. “I don’t think I was insane but many of the insane think that but i think now if anything saved me it was the avoidance of the crowd.”

Charles Bukowski

Insanity Reflection, Creative Solitude, Social Avoidance, Insanity, Avoidance, Solitude

21. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

Carl Jung

Avoidance Tactics, Soul Search, Absurd Fears, Avoidance, Souls, Fears

22. “Our first duty is not to be poor.”

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty Avoidance, First Duty, Poverty, Avoidance, Duty, First

23. “I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

George Bernard Shaw

Temptation Avoidance, Bad Choices, Temptation, Avoidance, Choices, Bad

24. “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

George Bernard Shaw

Conflict Avoidance, Humorous Wisdom, Conflict, Wisdom, Humor, Avoidance

25. “I made the remark that I don’t avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.”

Franz Kafka

Avoidance, Life, Death, Quiet, Escape, Peace

26. “You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

Franz Kafka

Suffering, Nature, Freedom, Avoidance, Escape, Reflection

27. “He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.”

Franz Kafka

Silence, Wisdom, Avoidance, Reflection, Peace, Test

28. “When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something – anything – before it is all gone.”

John Steinbeck

Condition Problem, Discontent Uneasiness, Protection Humans, Stress, Guilt, Avoidance

29. “I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.”

Haruki Murakami

Personality, Relationships, Life, Empathy, Kindness, Avoidance

30. “When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn’t want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now.”

Haruki Murakami

Pain, Heart, Emotions, Avoidance, Life, Regret

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