If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion,… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet 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
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides 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
As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river,… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin 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
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to… — Burt Rutan 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
