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“Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.”

Mind Choices Buddhism Absolutes Seats Drivers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.”

Would Be Choices Born Half Huge Died Absolutes Size Tunnels

Author:Carol Rifka Brunt

“Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.”

Ifs Choices Belief Views Absolutes Point Of View You Choose

Book:Son of a smaller hero: a novel

Source: Son of a smaller hero: a novel

“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?”

“Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.”

Choices Danger Fit Drug Weight Absolutes Alcohol Invisible Fats Poetic Unthinkable Unattractive Misfits Undisciplined Uncool Nadir Being Fat

Author:Claudia Shear

“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.”

Thinking Young Choices Culture Black Dark White Novel Reader Adults Absolutes Young Adult Defined Gray Shade Satisfying Black And White Shades Of Gray

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.”

Problem Purpose Choices Moral Sea Land Security Absolutes Appeals Presenting Unrest Singleness

Book:Twixt Land and Sea

Source: Twixt Land and Sea

“In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.”

Two Choices Fall Evil Heaven Hell Fine Despair Absolutes Reminders Faustus

Book:Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

Source: Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

“If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.”

Ifs Choices Absolutes Safety

Author:Salman Rushdie