Quotes About Equanimity

Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

Emotions are like waves on the sea or weather in the skies, rising and passing of their own accord. You cannot control your feelings by an act of intention or will. So you are not responsible for your feelings; only for your response to them. Accept emotions completely, let your feelings be; just don't let them run your life.

the height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances

For the Stoics, one key was seeing that our feelings about life's events, not those events themselves, determine our happiness; we find equanimity by distinguishing what we can control in life from what we cannot.

Allison decided it was okay sort of like if you're in a car and it topples off a hill you decide it's okay to fall, too.

The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things personally keeps your mind clear and your heart at peace.

You can't calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.

It's not a matter of letting go – you would if you could. Instead of "let it go" we should probably say "Let it be".

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

Surely the creatures of the fifth day of Creation accepted those of the sixth with equanimity, as though they had always been there. Eternity is always present in the animal mind; only men deal in beginnings and ends. It is probably lucky for man that he was created last. He would have got too excited and upset over all the change.

Seek not to have things happen as you choose them, but rather choose that they should happen as they do; and you shall live prosperously.

We must not avoid pleasures, but we must select them." Epicurus, then, is no epicurean; he exalts the joys of intellect rather than those of sense; he warns against pleasures that excite and disturb the soul which they should rather quiet and appease. In the end he proposes to seek not pleasure in its usual sense, but ataraxia—tranquillity, equanimity, repose of mind;

The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth