Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind,… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I like performing the martial arts scenes in films to whatever extent they will allow me to, which most of the time… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed.… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Loss aversion refers to the relative strength of two motives: we are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“He had no aversion to me, is how I might put it. Or rather, he had once had such an aversion, still… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“look back. She's crossed her arms and is tapping her ugly shoe on the carpet. “You're doing it again,” she says. “What?”… — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The sad thing about being caught up in attachment or aversion is that it interferes with the ability to experience things as… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
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
All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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