Quotes about Equanimity

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

Maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.

I have tried, at least most of the time, to set high objectives, to accept failures and disappointments with relative equanimity, to acknowledge and try to correct my mistakes and weaknesses, and then to set different and sometimes higher goals for the future.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

The snake's lack of peace on the outside was because of his own lack of peace on the inside…..Spurgeon goes on to equate this viper o people whose irritation is utterly unreasonable. They don't have peace on the inside, therefore it probably won't be possible for them to live with a consistency of peace on the outside.

If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.