Quotes About Equanimity

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

The secret of life is... everything is out of control.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

You have nothing to gain by freaking out.

No expectations, no disappointments. [Michael Townsend]

Recuerda que debes conducirte en la vida como en un banquete. ¿Un plato ha llegado hasta ti? Extiende tu mano sin ambición, tómalo con modestia. ¿Se aleja? No lo retengas. ¿No ha llegado aún? No lances desde lejos tu deseo, sino que espera a que el plato esté a tu lado.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.

People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.

Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.

Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life.