Quotes About Equanimity

There is no well being without inner peace.

Peaceful mind is Masterpiece.

The best remedy in situation is calmness.

I am not surprised by any situation.

Life is contentment not a competition.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

use our reasoning ability to drive away "all that excites or affrights us.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes put it best: I do not feel that selling at very low prices is a remedy for having failed to sell at high ones. . . . I would say that it is from time to time the duty of the serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself.

Combating myopic risk aversion is the most difficult emotional task facing any investor. I know of only two ways of doing this. The first is to check on your portfolios as infrequently as possible. ... The other way to avoid myopic risk aversion is to hold enough cash so that you have a certain equanimity about market falls.

What comes, comes, why bark?

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

The real man gains renown by standing between his family and destruction, absorbing the blows of fate with equanimity.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

I have good days and bad days, but they aren't much different.