Pain Avoidance

Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:

“For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a “solution” to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)

“Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)