Quotes on Avoiding Pain

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.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.