Aversion Quotes

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I must be myself. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. To counter these the subject has to switch to a diametrically opposed attitude.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”
― Ray Bradbury

“To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.”
― Seng-t'san

“Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion.”
― Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“They jogged along in silence, Jem playing with the thong of the whip, and Mary aware of his hands beside her. She glanced down at them out of the tail of her eye, and she saw they were long and slim; they had the same strength, the same grace, as his brother's. These attracted her; the others repelled her. She realised for the first time that aversion and attraction ran side by side; that the boundary line was thin between them. The thought was an unpleasant one, and she shrank from it. Supposing this had been Joss beside her ten, twenty years ago? She shuttered the comparison at the back of her mind, fearing the picture it conjured. She knew now why she hated her uncle.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

“In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“الضجر والنفور كأسلوب حياة يليق بهيبة متخفية لشجرة”
― Eman Herzallah

“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying "evil." The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which case fear, pain, disgust, shame and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyze them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them, if they are really harmful in relation to health and comfort.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.
Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.
It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had
gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty
housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young
boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.”
― Douglas B. Reeves, Transforming Professional Development into Student Results

“She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Listen Bhikkhus, just as a buffalo boy recognizes each of his own buffaloes, a bhikkhu recognizes each of the essential elements of his own body. Just as a buffalo boy knows the characteristics and tendencies of each buffalo, a bhikkhu knows which actions of body, speech, and mind are worthy and which are not. Just as a buffalo boy scrubs his animals clean, a bhikkhu must cleanse his mind and body of desires, attachments, anger, and aversions.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“We have inherited from our ancestors a great facility to learn when to be afraid. Indeed, one experience is often sufficient to establish a long term aversion and fear.”
― Daniel Kahneman

“Be the dolphin! ”
― Adam Moskowitz

“Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Aversion is an unwise strategy for living.”
― Mark W. Muesse, Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation

“The one who is free has no desires, no attachments, and no aversions. They are always in a state of supreme peace and happiness.”
― Twitter -@IntroIntrospect

“Love is contagious. Hate is much more!”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“RIGHT AND LEFT - A HAIKU

Craving, aversion
Swinging pendulum's dance fades,
Peace in the centre.”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage