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 cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".” — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz 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 planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature. — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more… — Sendhil Mullainathan 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
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans… — Charles Petzold 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
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but… — Sylvester Graham Copy Share Image
There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you… — Julia Glass 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
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Aversion gives love its death wound and forgetfulness buries it. - Jean de la Bruyere — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King 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
Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
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