Equanimity Quotes: top 59 famous quotes about Equanimity

Equanimity Quotes & Sayings

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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity. — Christina Baker Kline

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity. — Chris Matakas

Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit) — Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

Everyone's unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis' (Self-realized person's) duty. — Dada Bhagwan

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are. — Jack Kornfield

When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones; that is considered equanimity. — Dada Bhagwan

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. — William Osler

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. — Amos Bronson Alcott

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. — Horace

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity. — Sherry Turkle

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. — Nhat Hanh

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear. — James Oppenheim

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. — Anne Lamott

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. — Sharon Salzberg

Equanimity is calamity's medicine. — Publilius Syrus

A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. — Noam Chomsky

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity. — Sathya Sai Baba

Equanimity can be hard to talk about. — Sharon Salzberg

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason. — Sam Harris

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity. — Cynthia Heimel

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life. — Subhash Chandra

A loss is often a win delayed. A win at times is a loss defrayed. Equanimity with either is the real crusade. — Rashid Osmani

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition. — E. M. Forster

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed. — John Boyne

Not everyone could have the blissful equanimity of Lamen, who seemed to pay the Prince no deference of rank, a piece of very good acting. Charls — C.S. Pacat

Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity. — Seneca.

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity. — Allan Lokos

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind. — Nyanaponika Thera

Whence thine eyes see equanimity in
all things...this is peace. — Christine Horner

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa). — Dada Bhagwan

Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions. — Neil Smith

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell. — William Osler

Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. — Herman Melville

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle. — Amit Ray

Respond to others about your work with equanimity. — Joshua L. Goldberg

Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. — Patanjali

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. — Oscar Wilde

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity. — Sharon Salzberg

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. — John Maynard Keynes

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! — Charles Dickens

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations. — Allan Lokos

For, as every one knows, dogs cannot with equanimity see a human being running. — Ivan Goncharov

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. — Laura Hillenbrand

Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people. — Sharon Salzberg

Surrender creates equanimity and bliss because you release yourself from any attachment to the results. — Annette Vaillancourt

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. — Marcus Aurelius

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity. — Allan Lokos

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity. — Boethius

A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. — Gautama Buddha

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. — Miguel Ruiz