Quotes About Equanimity

The immediate result of your infinite patience is peace

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

If we can accept things just the way they are, we're not going to be greatly upset by anything.

Joy is being the circumstances of our life just as they are.

The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.

But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it.

We cannot lose control over something we have no control over

If there is peace in your mind, you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated, you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. Where else will you find peace if not within you?

The way to live a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and not care about what does not come.

Life would be easier for some people if it wasn't such a big deal

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like. Okay?

But I wasn't surprised, or scared, or even angry. I accepted it like a friendly wind, come to fly me home. It's okay, I thought. And it was.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

I should not mind anything at all.

No, really, it's fine," says the woman, getting up to leave.

not to borrow trouble by worrying about it.

Can lives that are merely constant be happy? If you asked Tom how he felt, he would have counted these out: wood, wind, waves. Not happy perhaps, but content. Ride Me Like a Wave (Stars anthology)

The lay reader, who knows only what the biographer tells him, reads it, as he reads every other biography, in a state of bovine equanimity.)

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.