Escape Behavior Quotes

If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

Escapism is survival to me.

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.