Quotes About Equanimity

Contentment with our life as it is brings a feeling of great lightness, for we lose the burden of continually craving for situations and people to be different. Things are as they are. Refusing to accept this creates dukkha and brings pain. It is like pushing against a sealed door. We push and we push until our hands hurt, but we cannot open it. If we are wise, we accept that this is simply how it is. The door is sealed, and it is perfectly all right that it is so.

A Tibetan aphorism states, "Let your mind be a gracious host in the midst of unruly guests.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

We all have presence of mind when everything goes well, but we need to have presence of mind when something goes wrong. If we face suffering and accept it as a necessary means, all anxiousness disappears.

When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together.

Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

I don't have any grievance against anybody.

There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

Taken aback by the discovery, a little too late, that tropical rain has the volume of a bathroom shower, I splashed on to a train for Panama City, put up at the Hotel Europa and restored equanimity with Planter's Punch. A world in which so delectable a drink existed, as well as the thirst necessary to deal with two successive pints of it, could not be wholly bad. In the evening I set out to inspect North American civilisation.

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Não vale a pena uma pessoa preocupar-se muito seja com o que for (...)

Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Slander may be defeated by equanimity; but courageous thoughts will not pay your baker's hill, and fortitude is nowhere considered legal tender for beef.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If": If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

To remain ever equanimous and cheerful is the greatest devotion to God.

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.