58 quotes found
“A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.”
“We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.”
“People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing...”
“Our inner experience is that which we think, feel, remember, perceive, sense, decide, plan and predict. These experiences are actually mental actions, or mental activity (Van der Hart et al., 2006)...”
“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, i...”
“Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of...”
“I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldnt come.Im free, and against organi...”
“There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.”
“Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.”
“The problem with trying to find your happiness through avoidance is the nature of reality. Reality simply does not allow us to evade unwanted experiences. Sure, we might be able to escape a few {.....”
“My mother's mouth drops. 'Emmy...don't say those things Emmy. Remember, we don't talk about those things.''Yes Mom. I remember. That's why I'm here, looking like this.'An orderly knocks on the door...”
“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.”
“If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.”
“Im like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.”
“Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.”
“You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.”
“Collision avoidance systems are the next big radio frequency (RF) toxin to hit the USA general population as they become standard safety equipment in most new cars.”
“Tilly screamed. Annas shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem? She recognized her fixation on this irritation as her own way o...”
“No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of t...”
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
