"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."
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"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."
"A cat has absolute honesty."
"It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality."
"I myself am an absolute abyss."
"The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control."
"I trust that absolutes have gradations."
"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
"Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor."
"The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth."
"God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!"
"The Absolute is the material of both God and man."
"When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most."
"It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself."
"The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart."
"Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance."
"Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth."
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"
"I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute."
"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made."
"The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do."