Quotes About Equanimity

The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Better to accept whatever happens.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

I try to be positive and calm all the time.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.

Why ain't you mad?" I asked. "Might as well get mad at the wind for blowin'. Some things just be what they be.

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.

have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don't we?

Tranquility, compassion, and wisdom are the components of fearlessness, not power, control, and remaining unaffected.

to counter longing, pay attention to the present moment; to counter rage, invite sadness; and to reverse disheartenment, introduce an element of precision to your environment.

God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

We say concentration, but to concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of Zen. The true purpose is to see thing as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. This is to put everything under control in its widest sense.

Happiness, therefore, is measured by the tranquillity of one's mind.

You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.

Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question.