Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. . . . I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.
With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.
Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for. . . less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.
They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.