Aversion Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we… — Jack Kornfield
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't… — Gary Bauer
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes,… — Peter Lynch
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results… — Wilhelm Ostwald
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear.… — S. N. Goenka
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds. — J. Paul Getty
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 want to lead. — Joni Mitchell
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow… — Pema Chodron
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the… — Michel Onfray
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. — Douglas B. Reeves
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined… — J. Christopher Herold
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only… — Ambrose Bierce
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people… — Gerard Verschuuren
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. — Hermann Hesse
If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead… — Gregory Palamas
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone,… — Tennessee Williams

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