Quotes About Equanimity

Whatever is — is best.

I am much more than one emotion. An emotion is something that comes, stays for some while, and will have to go away. I don't have to die just because of one emotion. I know I can handle an emotion with the practice of mindful deep breathing. I have survived emotions before.

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. 

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

To maintain a clear, balanced mind; to perceive things as they are, without bias; and to act without prejudging, constitute the core of nonattachment.

It will all be the same, only I will be stiller

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

Live and let Live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay. --James Frey

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Don't let anything disturb your inner peace and tranquilly.

To find a peaceful world, a man of wisdom creates peace within himself.

Sometimes, getting comfortable with the circumstance is the only preparation you need to deal with it.

Whenever possible, choose peace.

If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

With inner peace, you are undisturbed by outside turbulence.

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

There are moments when you have to have a cool head and keep a standard.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

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

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.