Equanimity Quotes
66 quotes by 61 authors
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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…
— Marcus Aurelius
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something…
— Aberjhani
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For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's…
— Jane Lynch
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
— Oscar Wilde
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows…
— Edward Hoagland
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No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be…
— Stanley Ellin
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He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity…
— Rahul Dravid
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A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.
— Goldie Hawn
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Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to…
— Laurel Holloman
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes…
— William James
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. Â It is…
— Ramana Maharshi
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I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
— Jack Kornfield
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We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no…
— Jonathan Kozol
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
— William Osler
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their…
— Samuel Smiles
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The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.
— Nhat Hanh
Who Wrote These Equanimity Quotes
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