Quotes About Equanimity

Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything.

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

And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.

Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.

Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite to you.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.

Älä pyri siihen, että kaikki tapahtuisi kuten haluat, vaan halua kaiken tapahtuvan niin kuin se tapahtuu. Silloin elämäsi on tasaista virtaa.

Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

I cannot stay in harmony if I let myself become upset by things beyond my control.

No exijas que los acontecimientos sucedan como deseas. Acéptalos tal como son realmente. Así te será posible ser feliz.

There is one road to peace and happiness (keep the thought near by morning, noon and night): renunciation of externals;

________ Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would want them too. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible

True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.

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.

An ignorant person is one who is tossed about between elation and despair by external forces and events.

Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Show me someone untroubled with disturbing thoughts about illness, danger, death, exile or loss of reputation. By all the gods, I want to see a Stoic!

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control.