Aversion Quotes

• What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Life, Learning, Attachment

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• 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

  Hurt, Love You, Suffering

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• You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Encouragement, Hurt

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• To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Understanding, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.214

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• My only aversion to vice, is the price.

  Victor Buono

  Vices

  "The Portable Curmudgeon". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 274, 1992.

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• 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 to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Communication, Loss

  Charles Horton Cooley (1912). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Supposing That, People

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.460

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• A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

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  Ram Dass

  Inspirational, Attachment, Feelings

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.59, Harmony

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• I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Luck, Indifference, Regard

  'The New Arabian Nights' (1882) 'The Rajah's Diamond: Story of the Bandbox'

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• Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Pleasure

  'The Contrast' (1804) ch. 2

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• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Criticism, Social

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Religious, Lying, Ambition

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• Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Jealousy, Secret, Worship

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• My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Funny, Friendship

  "Break of Day". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1928.

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• I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Cerebral, Deep Down

  Gramophone, Volume 79, 2001.

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• Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

  "Interview with Secretary Hillary Clinton". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

  Helen Clark

  Strong, Lying, Social

  Valedictory Speech in Parliament, www.infonews.co.nz. April 08, 2009.

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• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Thinking, Umpires

  "Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

  Vaclav Havel

  Writing, Responsibility, Principles

  "PEN International saddened by death of Václav Havel". December 19, 2011.

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• Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

  Ellen G. White

  Religious, Exercise, Amusement

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• Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Lobsters and Lies" by Madeleine Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2011.

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• 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Clever, Rivals

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Suffering, Sorrow

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• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• 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 like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

  Gary Bauer

  Government, Decision, Care

  Republican Presidential Candidates Forum, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 29, 1999.

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