If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity. — Philemon Copy Share Image
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Rejoice in good times, but always remember that, sooner or later, good times will end, as will the bad times.” — Amar Ochani Copy Share Image
I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“I sometimes marvel at how far I’ve come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“Equanimity is when abhorrence does not arise during the circumstances of abhorrence and attachment does arise during the circumstances of attachment.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
“- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
