Quotes About Equanimity

But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

There was no good or bad connected with anything any more.......He regretted nothing; wanted nothing. He was simply existing, and the way things were was the way they had always been and always would be. He didn't care any more. He did what had to be done, and endured in a timeless present, without past or future.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?

serenity, the calm daughter of tolerance

But one thing was quite clear.... [Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway] wrote. [B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom

But one thing was quite clear…" he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually

Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.