Quotes About Equanimity

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

He said there are two ways for a hitter to get the pitch he wants. The simplest way is not to want any pitch in particular. But the best way, he said -- which sounds almost the same, but is really very different -- is to want the very pitch you're gonna get. Including the one you can handle. But also the one that's gonna strike you out looking. And even the one that's maybe gonna bounce off your head.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it.

To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: "It's okay if it happens, and it's okay if it doesn't.

It is what it is," which is ubiquitous now and means absolutely nothing, as far as we can see. "Isn't that the state motto of South Dakota?" I said the second or third time I heard it.

she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.

That's me: success and failure don't affect me.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

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

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

Don't try to anticipate or worry about something you can't control.

You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

pleasure pain are equal in a clear heart no mountain hides the moon

I get over it quickly and never lose control of myself.

Value your lows just as highly as your highs.

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world. ("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.