Quotes About Equanimity

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The wise man will try to live unnoticed, so as to have no enemies.

be indifferent to the goods that fortune has to bestow, and you will be emancipated from fear.

Philosophic contemplation does not, in its widest survey, divide the universe into two hostile camps -- friends and foes, helpful and hostile, good and bad -- it views the whole impartially.

I don't resent anything.

I think judging a shuttle is different everywhere, so there is a drift, but you have to be used to it. We can't complain, as I think it is same for all.

Act, Junah, but act without attachment, as the earth does. As I do. The rain falls, with no thought of watering the land. The clouds roll, not seeking to bring shade. They simply do. And we must too.

But you can't talk yourself out of anger. Either you are angry or you're not.

We must let life be life.

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

We must be content and think it no fault; /

Anger is an emotion just as joy and fear are. It is neither right nor wrong—it just is.

Through their visual and literary lines, Rilke and Kahlo seem to attain a sense of personal equanimity by entertaining the secular import of Thomas Browne's assertion that "there is something in us, that can be without us, and will be after us.

I couldn't count on the world being silent, so my only option was to become at peace with the noise.

When uncomfortable, my instinct is not to avoid the discomfort but to become at peace with it.

One of the great secrets of life is learning to live without being happy.

One of the greatest secrets of life is learning to live without being happy.

Her life lacked drama and excitement, but she was content.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

phlegmatically.

That's not the same as bookkeeping!" How can she be so fucking clam!

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Never change your plans because of the weather, be Zen and go with the weather, let the weather reveal itself to you in all its variety and grandeur.

When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.