Quotes About Equanimity

You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

She is one of those people who have found serenity because they have never tried to dodge suffering.

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

I could see peace instead of this.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

I am at peace with myself.

you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

Never fight an inanimate object.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Don't be proud when happy and don't get disheartened when sad, remember that all our moods are temporary joy, pain, love, hate and this will all pass.

If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.

Live gracefully in plenty and live gracefully in need. Embrace them both or swindle yourself out of half a life.

Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans.

getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

It was from an old friend who ¦ thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.