Quotes About Equanimity

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

You have to be philosophical about life, you cant angst over it too much.

I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.

It would be against my nature if I shouted or banged the walls.

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

Going with it was Tenley's superpower. Only child of a single dad, she'd learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside was very little ruffled her. The downside was very little ruffled her.

The great sages of my Indian heritage had cultivated equanimity and detachment in the face of life's challenges, and I strove to emulate them by accepting what had happened to me with as much grace as I could muster.

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

Let come what comes, Let go what goes, See what remains.

He who has renounced (the 'I-thought') thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara

Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one's faith is strong that God looks after all of us.

When you suffer, Ananda had told him, When you rage. When you weep. When you crave. That is when you must still your mind.

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

You have to be calm as a manger.

I'm pathologically calm.

I like to keep a calm set.

I'm quite calm when all is well.

I'm still trying to figure out being calm.

I always try to keep calm.

I've always been calm, as long as I can remember.

I am not affected or carried away by success or failure.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.