Quotes About Equanimity

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

Don't stress out about the things you can't control.

I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.

There will be good times, and there will be bad, but one has to, to the extent possible, take things in one's stride.

I take things in stride, go with the flow.

Sushma Swaraj has no personal ambition. I take things in my stride.

I just try to take everything in my stride.

I take life in its stride and accept every single second happily.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against a wall.

I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

Life's not fair . . . get over it.

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay.

Such things happen," said Too-ticky

The five poisons of desire, aggression, jealousy, pride, and ignorance are transformed, or transmuted, into their corresponding five wisdoms. Desire is transformed into discriminating wisdom, aggression into mirror-like wisdom, jealousy into all accomplishing wisdom, pride into wisdom of equanimity, and ignorance into wisdom of dharmadhatu, or reality.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

With a loving mind, cherish more than a child The hostile gods and demons of apparent existence, And tenderly surround yourself with them. — Machig Labdrön (1055–1145)

Hold it lightly.

If you can solve your problem, Then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, Then what is the use of worrying?

To Londoners, bombs and riots were just an extreme form of weather.

Absorb blows with equanimity. That's what anthropologist David Gilmore says is at the heart of being male, and man, does that take courage. It means we defend others without giving into hatred, disdain, or contempt. And it means that we defend our own God-given value and importance without succumbing to an eye-for-an-eye or tooth-for-a-tooth. We don't seek revenge even when we easily can.