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Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind. -- Nyanaponika Thera
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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 such opinions. -- Albert Einstein
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers. -- Dani Shapiro
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 sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -- Carl Jung
Equanimity is calamity's medicine. -- Publilius Syrus
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are. -- Jack Kornfield
Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit) -- Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle. -- Amit Ray
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both. -- Richard Rohr
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. -- Oscar Wilde
Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life. -- Subhash Chandra
You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity. -- Christina Baker Kline
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. -- William Osler
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity. -- Philemon
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
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 power. -- Seneca the Younger
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 things being equal. -- Goldie Hawn
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
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, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. -- Tom Robbins
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. -- Etty Hillesum
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 help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. -- Marcus Aurelius
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 memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group. -- Amit Ray
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 you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. -- Marcus Aurelius
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 planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different. -- Gary Hamel
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 intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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 from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile. -- Edward Hoagland
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 own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. -- Samuel Smiles
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 is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue -- Dalai Lama
When you know that everything happens for the best, then everything that happens is okay with you. The irony of this is that when everything that happens is okay with you, you set up an energy field of such equanimity and harmony with the universe that the universal law of attraction draws more equanimity and harmony into your life. -- Neale Donald Walsch
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 of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down. -- William James
Respond to others about your work with equanimity. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. -- Sarah MacLean
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity. -- Allan Lokos
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. -- Horace
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. -- Anne Lamott
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. -- Sharon Salzberg
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. -- John Maynard Keynes
We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity. -- Allan Lokos
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. -- Nhat Hanh
The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. -- Sharon Salzberg
Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. -- Patanjali
A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations. -- Allan Lokos
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. -- Goldie Hawn
Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity. -- Sathya Sai Baba
We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear. -- James Oppenheim
Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity. -- Pope Gregory I
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity. -- Sharon Salzberg
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. -- Pema Chodron
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. -- Laura Hillenbrand
The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) -- Jean-Yves Leloup
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. -- Gautama Buddha
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
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason. -- Sam Harris
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
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
Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways. -- Satish Kumar
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 things being equal. -- Goldie Hawn
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 about his captaincy. -- Rahul Dravid
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity. -- Boethius
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence). -- Sathya Sai Baba
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. -- Samuel Butler
A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maÃ®tre, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy. -- Longchenpa
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 personal reputation to secure. -- Jonathan Kozol
self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
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 toward misfortune, misery and destruction. -- Luther Burbank
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) -- Albert Einstein
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. -- Socrates
The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity. -- Joseph Goldstein
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending. -- Henry David Thoreau
Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad -- Michael Mauboussin
The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind. -- Sharon Gannon

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