"The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands."

-- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#Compassion Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.”
“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”
“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.”
“However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.”
“Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.”
“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.”
“In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.”
“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.39, Yearling

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