Quotes about Equanimity

If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

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

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.

I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.

They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit.

You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.