Equanimity Quotes

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If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road… — Luther Burbank
I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all… — Goldie
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming… — Albert Einstein
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by… — Carl Jung
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness,… — Tom Robbins
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course,… — Arthur C. Clarke
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity. — C.D. Payne
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. — Anne Lamott
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There… — Mohsin Hamid
She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and… — Cassandra Clare
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. — Laura Hillenbrand
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity… — Gore Vidal
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things… — Marcus Aurelius
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its… — Seneca the Younger
If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind… — Dalai Lama
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
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our… — Gary Hamel

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