Quotes About Equanimity

He can take it and leave it, which is a much happier condition than having to do one or the other. He's not sure how this

Expect Nothing

Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

You can't worry about things you have no control over.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

Better to live with peace and not stress over the things which we can't handle .

My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss'

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro.

I can sit and view the scene with detachment because I know that delays are part of the game. It is what it is – but many people haven't discovered that yet.