The virtue in most request is conformity.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual. ' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
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.
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
