Aversion Quotes - Page 5

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Appreciation, Mind, Wake Up

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Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.

John Fogerty

Sarcastic, Song, Talking

Source: www.citypages.com

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The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

World, Charity, Four

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Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.

Ravi Zacharias

Christian, Thinking, People

Source: www.apologetics315.com

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Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Laurie R. King

Machinery, Exception, Complexes

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I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

David Hume

Memories, Men, Bless

John Hill Burton, David Hume (1983). “Life and Correspondence of David Hume”, Facsimiles-Garl

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Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

Allen Lacy

Wife, Rose, Austria

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Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

Saint Francis de Sales

Perfect, Joy, Soul

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As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

Frederick Lenz

Light, Profound, Desire

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I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

Bob Newhart

Drama, Character, Clubs

Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

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There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Cities, Differences

Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.410

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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

Sallust

Friendship, Desire, Firm

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I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

Ellen Goodman

Religious, Moving, Acceptance

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To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

Thucydides

Fate, Men, Envy

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The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Light, Suffering

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If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Neal Asher

Technology, People, Dying

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To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.

Raymond Geuss

Strong, Moving, Addiction

Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Feelings, Sensual

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Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.

Seth Klarman

Believe, Long, Focus

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[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

Edward Gibbon

War, Sovereign, Honorable

Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.886, Modern Library

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Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

Michael Arrington

Mean, College, People

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I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Men, Records, Tickets

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It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Hatred, Mind, Twists

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

Ivan Turgenev

Soul, Hints, Politeness

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

George Santayana

Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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