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Quotes About Equanimity

But now, falling here, with everything over, I'm not jealous of you anymore, because it's over for you as it is for me, and right now it's like it never was.
~ Ray Bradbury
Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun...In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .
~ Joseph Conrad
In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .
~ Joseph Conrad
Finally, my mind just settled into the realization that accidents happen, and a mantra suddenly appeared in my mind, one that has served me well since: anything can happen anytime.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Having been through both of those other stages, our mind matures to a place where it is no longer moved: it does not grasp at pleasant things; it is not repelled by unpleasant things. Our mind attains deep, deep balance, like a calm, deep-flowing river. Out of this mature place of equanimity, the conditions arise that open our mind suddenly to the unconditioned, to what is beyond body and mind, to freedom.
~ Joseph Goldstein
As a solid mass of rock Is not moved by the wind, So a sage is not moved by praise and blame.
~ Joseph Goldstein
The world is like that boat, tossed by the storms of greed and hatred and fear.
~ Joseph Goldstein
And one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.
~ Joseph Goldstein
The infinite intelligence, which gave me this desire leads, guides, and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. I know the deeper wisdom of my subconscious is now responding, and what I feel and claim within is expressed in the without There is a balance, equilibrium, and equanimity.
~ Joseph Murphy
The infinite intelligence, which gave me this desire leads, guides, and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. I know the deeper wisdom of my subconscious is now responding, and what I feel and claim within is expressed in the without. There is a balance, equilibrium, and equanimity." If
~ Joseph Murphy
The infinite intelligence which gave me this desire leads and guides me. It reveals the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. I know the deeper wisdom of my subconscious is now responding, and what I feel and claim within is expressed in the without. There is a balance, equilibrium, and equanimity.
~ Joseph Murphy
Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe, but that's simply not my style. What's done is done. I'm sure I had my reasons.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.
~ Joss Whedon
She would become, through the years, a woman who expected the worst, to relieve herself of the anxiety of hope. She would become a woman of calm, fatalistic principles, anticipating her life with the equanimity of a weather forecaster.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It's fine, I have it. It's fine.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The mind should not be filled with reasoning, worry, anxiety, fear, and the like. It should be calm, quiet, and serene.
~ Joyce Meyer
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~ Washington Irving
Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.
~ Daniel Levin
What is suffering? The desire for things to be other than they are. What is contentment? Accepting everything as it is.
~ Daniel Levin
When life becomes difficult, allow yourself to feel the pain in the moment. Go with it for as long as it lasts, and then watch it dissolve away. Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.
~ Daniel Levin
Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. Philippians 4:11–12, NLT
~ Darlene Zschech
I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt
~ Darynda Jones
So make sure in your heart of hearts, in your inner self, that you treat your station in life with indifference, not with contempt, only with indifference.
~ James B. Stockdale
Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
~ James Frey