The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc. , will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.
Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.
"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.
I wonder if Dave Bearden still dislikes me.
To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
love comes from the heart not from the mind. you will love and be loved. don't force things good things take time. one good reason for people to love you is for who you are not who someone else is. your beautiful and wonderful don't change that just because one person dislikes like you for who you are
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. . . I f you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. . . This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. . . He is therefore Life, and Love.
Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.
