Quotes about Equanimity

Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!

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

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.

If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I've learned to be fine with not knowing.

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

Maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

I have tried, at least most of the time, to set high objectives, to accept failures and disappointments with relative equanimity, to acknowledge and try to correct my mistakes and weaknesses, and then to set different and sometimes higher goals for the future.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

The snake's lack of peace on the outside was because of his own lack of peace on the inside…..Spurgeon goes on to equate this viper o people whose irritation is utterly unreasonable. They don't have peace on the inside, therefore it probably won't be possible for them to live with a consistency of peace on the outside.