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Quotes About Aversion

Self-discipline is a quality that is won through practice. Psychologist Joseph Mancusi noted, "Truly successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Real success lies in experiencing fear or aversion and acting in spite of it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Sorry, I'm not into farm animals.
~ Unknown
No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
~ Unknown
Dear Facebook friend suggestion, yeah I know him, but I fu..ing hate him.
~ Unknown
Well I'd love to stay and chat but I fu..ing hate you.
~ Unknown
I wish they made bi... repellent.
~ Unknown
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.
~ Frederick Lenz
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
~ James Joyce, Ulysses
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.
~ Lester Levenson
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
~ Suzanne Farrell
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
~ Sallust
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.
~ Mario Cuomo
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
~ John Prine
I hate exercise.
~ Bridget Fonda
I know exercise is important, but I hate it!
~ Gayle King
I don't really like event managing - I don't even manage my house.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
Do I like Manhattan? No. Do I want to be in Manhattan? No.
~ Dave Portnoy
Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Perversion is the erotic form of hatred.
~ Diane Ackerman
In other words, people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains. In
~ Donald Miller
people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains.
~ Donald Miller
Things are wrong and people misbehave, causing our hatred and suffering to arise. But however painful our experiences may be, they are just painful experiences until we add the response of aversion or hatred. Only then does suffering arise. If we react with hatred and aversion, these qualities become habitual. Like a distorted autoimmune response, our misguided reaction of hatred does not protect us; rather, it becomes the cause of our continued unhappiness.
~ Jack Kornfield