Equanimity Quotes
Collection of 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
Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit)
— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
— Jack Kornfield
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
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
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
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
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
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
Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.
— Nyanaponika Thera
Whence thine eyes see equanimity inall 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
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
Respond to others about your work with equanimity.
— Joshua L. Goldberg
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
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
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
— Sharon Salzberg
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.
— Gautama Buddha
