Quotes About Equanimity

This penetrating vocabulary of initiatory acts, the infectiousness of the unconflicted person, priority magic, and so on allows us to understand more subtly the dynamics of group sadism, the utter equanimity with which groups kill. It is not just that father permits it or orders it. It is more: the magical heroic transformation of the world and of oneself. This is the illusion that man craves, as Freud said, and that makes the central person so effective a vehicle for group emotion.

Rude?os ar skumj?m samierinies.

Disaster and treating 'those two impostors just the same'. She added, 'Remember that

As the rest of them aged and raged against the good night to come, he faced it with equanimity, even with amusement. Death, he said, was the last big adventure.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I have no goals or ambitions whatsoever.

I look to play the same way wherever I play.

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

With time, I've learnt that personal likes or dislikes don't count a lot.

Even when I was young, I never felt extreme feelings.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.

No, I don't have a problem with my temper.

Do I ever really lose my temper? Goodness me, no. Not at home or at work. There's no point in getting in a tizz over anything. Life's too short.

They live in Tranquillity which is not disturb'd by the Inequality of Condition.

For every ill beneath the sun, There is some remedy, or none Should there be one, resolve to find it; If not, submit, and never mind it. -Ancient West County wise saw or saying

The New York Times foresaw that in future generations "if a great soldier is indomitable in purpose and exhaustless in courage, endurance, and equanimity; if he is free from vanity and pettiness, if he is unpretentious, truthful, frank, constant, generous to friends, magnanimous to foes, and patriotic to the core, of him it will be said, 'He is like Grant.

It often saves me much annoyance.

Peace comes through acceptance.

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

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.