If jellybeans came in a broader flavor base that included emotions too, I’d avoid the red ones, because they would taste like rage.
Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.
If Shane had avoided her for years because of a kiss, he might leave the country over a blow and hand job.
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.
Hide things everywhere. Forget about them. Find them randomly and feel surprised like a pirate finding buried treasure. Avoid scurvy. Love more.
Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
But why all these questions? Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering. Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.
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 wealt...
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.
It seems the only way we can avoid being the victims of change is to reconcile with the inevitable. We must never stand on the rail tracks of positive change.
Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.
Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.
I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.
The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.
I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.
Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen.
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
