Quotes About Equanimity

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

But no, I decided, he is just a man at peace with himself and with life—an accomplishment rare in its own right.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Never cry over anything that can't cry over you

Cool, calm and collected, the three seas of wisdom and success.

She wasn't afraid that Nils wouldn't accept the news well. He always accepted everything with equanimity, because he said everything had its reason.

Nils might face death with equanimity, but not lameness. And because he never spoke of it, never complained, it would go harder for him than Own, who could swear freely about his missing fingers, and pity himself intensely and eloquently.

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

Delusion with respect to the body, idle talk with respect to speech, forgetfulness with respect to the mind, mental agitation in terms of not resting evenly in meditative equipoise, ideation of duality in terms of samsara and nirvana being viewed differently, indifferent equanimity in terms of not being alert and analyzing: the Sage is without any of these.

We should at once cast far away Our mind's attachments: Tinder for the fiery flames of hate.

If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?

When the urge arises in your mind To feelings of desire or angry hate, Do not act! Be silent, do not speak! And like a log of wood be sure to stay.

The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.