Quotes About Equanimity

It is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself

Happiness in life is the result of accepting everything just the way it is. Serenity is achieved when one no longer wishes for "something else.

It came from Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

him. It came from Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey.....

It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

Love of fate?' 'It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

There is strength in calm").

Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

Peace of mind is power of being.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

do not let your frame of mind be any different from your everyday mind.

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,And I will look on both indifferently.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

Don't ever worry about things that don't worry about you!

Buddhism finds happiness in the midst of rather than the absence of problems.