Quotes About Equanimity

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell

Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and this, my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

You no longer need excuses, regrets, nostalgia, You reject nothing, you refuse nothing. You have ceased going forward, but that is because you weren't going forward anyway, you're not setting off again, you have arrived, you can see no reason to go any further.

Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other than it is.

A yogi has no preferences. There's no point in hurrying. The only thing that matters is for me to watch whatever is happening, good or bad.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

This moment is as it should be.

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.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Loose and forbear!

Bilgewater, and so what's the use o' your bein' sour? It'll only make things oncomfortable. It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king—so what's the use to worry? Make the best o' things the way you find 'em, says I—that's my motto.

Trgovac koji ostavlja otvorene prozore trgovine ne može se ljutiti na kišu koja mu je uništila robu.

To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.

Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great rejoicings or great lamentation; partly because all things are full of change, and your fortune may turn at any moment; partly because men are so apt to be deceived in their judgment as to what is good or bad for them.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

Remain calm, patient, and good humored.

neither flushed nor pale.

accepted stoically, without fear or self-pity or hope for anything

There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.