Quotes About Equanimity

so long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,--pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

The ultimate implication of the words "peace on earth" is to remove altogether the ideas of peace and war and to open yourself equally and completely to the positive and negative aspects of the world.

1. Not practicing the four dharmas of a practitioner (not returning curses for curses, anger for anger, blow for blow, or insult for insult)

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!

Hay que tomar las cosas como vienen; eso es lo que tenemos que hacer en esta vida.

My father's wery much in that line now. If my mother-in-law blows him up, he whistles. She flies in a passion, and breaks his pipe; he steps out, and gets another. Then she screams wery loud, and falls into 'sterics; and he smokes wery comfortably till she comes to agin. That's philosophy, Sir, ain't it?

Don't cry over spilt burrito — that's why they invented forks.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and just let them happen.

When things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong.

The truth is, "Do what you can with what you have, Because some people never go crazy.

At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and slept the sleep of the dead.

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.' The poem is called Ash Wednesday, by T. S. Eliot.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

When you're down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

Be it high or low, it doesn't matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.

From my dad I learnt that it is very important to stay calm.

The key is to stay level headed. Not get too high with the highs. At the same time, you need to stay strong when things aren't going your way.

Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help.

There is nothing difficult about the Great Way But, avoid choosing! Only when you neither love nor hate, Does it appear in all clarity. Do not be anti- or pro- anything. The conflict of longing and loathing, This is the disease of the mind. Not knowing the profound meaning of things, We disturb our (original) peace of mind to no purpose.