Quotes About Equanimity

It doesn't matter, because it just doesn't matter.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Your attitude should be: "I want to be aware, I want to be in touch with whatever is and let whatever happens happen; if I'm awake, fine, and if I'm asleep, fine.

When you're living for nothing, you've got all your skills, you've got all your energy, you're relaxed, and you don't care. It doesn't matter to you whether you win or lose. Now there's human living for you. That's what life is all about.

Mintalah hati yang damai, walau dalam keadaan apa pun juga.

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.

I just roll with the punches.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

You just keep your feet on the floor. I never feel I get too high and I never feel I get too low about things. Everyone else may deal with things like that differently but that is just how I go about it.

I don't worry about things I don't control, so I just keep trying to go with the flow.

I never get too over-confident, or too down. I just go with the flow.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?

Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything

I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Whether you win or lose, you need to stay on a level platform.

Steve Nash, Grant Hill, they were always preaching whether you win or lose. You have to keep an even keel, keep a level head.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.