Quotes About Equanimity

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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

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

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.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

If there is no blind hope, there is also no disappointment. If one knows that everything is impermanent, one does not grasp, and if one does not grasp, one will not think in terms of having or lacking, and therefore one lives fully.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.