Quotes About Equanimity

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

When neither their property nor their honour is touched the majority of man live content

You want your response to be the same for the easy things as for the harder things so that you don't reveal what's easy and what's hard by the way you answer.

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure—winning or losing.

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

No estoy ni triste ni alegre; este aire de aquí te llena de una muy vaga exaltación y te hace conocer un estado que parece tan lejano de la alegría como de la pena; quizá esto sea la felicidad.

C'était une âme et un corps où n'entrait jamais l'aiguillon.

In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.

Having spent years observing my mind in meditation, I find such sudden transitions from happiness to suffering both fascinating and rather funny—and merely witnessing them goes a long way toward restoring my equanimity. My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.

The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts, but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.

ADIAPHORY  (ADIA'PHORY)   n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.

It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.

there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men — and God knows why they are so fashioned — did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation.

The fear he speaks of is that which renders us more cautious, not that which produces despondency, the fear which is felt when the mind confounded in itself resumes its equanimity in God, downcast in itself, takes courage in God, distrusting itself, breathes confidence in God.