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But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of... Alan Watts
I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice. Roger Zelazny
Lay down these words. Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands. In choice of place, set. Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with. Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional. Game of Go. ants and pebbles. In the thin loam, each rock... Gary Snyder
There is no such thing as the State. And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice. To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. Milan Kundera
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. Albert Schweitzer
Neil Gaiman quote: "Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or..."
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? Neil Gaiman
Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But Fear is a choice. Will Smith
The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices."Margaret Mead(this may not be her exact wording, but it's close enough). Margaret Mead
We tell ourselves stories in order to live? We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret What we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. (Quoted from Into Thin Air, taken from The White Album by Joan Didion) Joan Didion
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of..."
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. Jeffrey Eugenides
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. Deepak Chopra
If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong.- Kung Fu, The Legend Continues - David Carradine
If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives. Stephenie Meyer
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. Orson Scott Card

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