Fierce Compassion Quotes

#1. Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

Bonnie Myotai Treace

#3. We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize."
"I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

J.D. Robb

#5. The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#6. I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Dick Schaap

#7. Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

Annie Dillard

#8. I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.

Nick Rhodes

#9. He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
[He that tells a secret is another's servant.]

George Herbert

#10. I know I've married the right person when words turn you on as much as they do me. I read deeper into that, as I should. Translation: I could only ever be with you, Rose.

Krista Ritchie

#11. Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'

Issan Dorsey

#12. Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Allen West

#13. It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Charles De Lint

#14. I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

David Sanborn

#15. Service to humanity has no alternative

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.

Janet Fitch

#18. He'd made a complete ninny of himself. Wentworth probably thought he'd never been kissed before. Which couldn't be farther from the truth. Colton had been kissed at least three times just last season.

J.L. Langley

#19. Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#20. We give our children everything, because they are the most important things in our lives. They are why we exist, to give life to others so that they can carry forward what we have started.

David Jackson