Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.
Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.
It's always helpful to pick our fans' brains to see what their favorite videos are and to figure out what the momentum of our channel is. Not just based on views or likes or dislikes, but anecdotally.
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.
My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more different "types" of poetry I grow to love. I might not even believe anymore that there are "types" of poetry at all. I've come to love things I once would snootily have dismissed. Of course I still have my likes and dislikes, and there are things I think are just plain old bullshit, but more and more I am far more trusting of my loves than my dislikes.
The truth is I'm a dork. I collected comics. I still love cartoons. I'd rather be at home on a Friday night than out at some club… My sense of humor is that of a geek. My likes and dislikes are that of a geek. I've memorized every crappy sci-fi movie there is, but still haven't seen Schindler's List.
We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.
'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.