My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
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.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
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.
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.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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.
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.
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.
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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