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Letter "A" » Avoiding
«Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.»
«Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.»
Author: John D. MacDonald
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
Avoiding, dependent, dependent on, friendships, Marriages, unforgivable
«Most people have come to prefer certain of life?s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
| Keywords:
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«Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.»
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
Avoiding, calling together, Call of, elementary, individuals, insecurities, insecurity, instincts, misery, promiscuous, satisfaction, seeking, selves, surrender, The Call
«All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.»
«Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Opportunity,
Peace,
Preparation
| Keywords:
Avoiding, cultivating, prepare for, repel, repelled
«Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
Avoiding, external, externals, hate, internal, nonviolence, not only, physical, refuse, shoot, shoot for, Shoot Out, shoot up, spirit, violence
«Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
Avoiding, battles, in-fighting, masterly, retreat
«The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.»
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