10 Quotes About Aversion

Aversion is the opposite of attraction. When we are attracted to something, it can be difficult to resist. But when our aversion to something is stronger than our attraction, it’s hard to keep from getting involved. These aversion quotes are here to help you realize that feelings have a will of their own, and you have the power to change them.

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We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43) Stephen Levine
Bernie believed in God. He believed that God wanted people...
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Bernie believed in God. He believed that God wanted people to enjoy life to the fullest, not drench themselves in aversion and prejudice. Rebecca McNutt
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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
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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
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One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. Douglas B. Reeves
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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
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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. Ray Bradbury
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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
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To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind. Sengcan