Equanimity Quotes

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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
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
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
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
What Iâ€™ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. — Goldie Hawn
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
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
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
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
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comesâ€¦I would go much further than that. I… — John Maynard Keynes
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are. — Jack Kornfield
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
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
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. — William Osler
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
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. — Nhat Hanh

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