Aversion Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our preferences or opinions cannot always be explained or rationalized. There is no accounting for taste. But we can always adjust things to our…

— Erik Pevernagie

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose…

— Trista Hendren

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to…

— Frederick Douglass

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

— Sheena Iyengar

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see…

— Oliver Goldsmith

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon…

— Laurence Sterne

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

— Laura Riding

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make…

— William Butler Yeats

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

— Stephen Covey

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

— Indira Gandhi