No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image