Equanimity Quotes - Page 3

• In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

  Philemon

  Adversity, Men, Able

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• The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.

  Shinzen Young

  Pain, Unconditional Love, Expression

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• 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

  Compassion, Two, Great Love

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• 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

  Disappointment, Order, Careers

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

  Samuel Smiles

  Fighting, Men, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.239

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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 from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wise, Wisdom, Fun

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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 should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself.  … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Serious, Shame

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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

  Meditation, I've Learned, Eastern Philosophy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Bears, Misfortunes Of Others

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Nothing...Except My Genius”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

  Longchenpa

  Flower, Compassion, Water

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• By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Home, Compassion, Meditation

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• When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

  Leigh Hunt

  Lying, Mean, Evil

  Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder

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• 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

  Self, People, Mind

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.104

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• 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

  Attitude, Luck, Done

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• Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Sadness, Warrior, Night

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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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 about his captaincy.

  Rahul Dravid

  Epic, Leader, Example

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• 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 Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Wind

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.254

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• 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

  Memories, Past, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.1, Mondial

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• Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

  Pope Gregory I

  Moving, Faults, Said

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

  Susan Vreeland

  Spiritual, Loving Life, Debt

  Susan Vreeland (2011). “Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel”, p.89, Random House

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• We age inevitably:
  The old joys fade and are gone:
  And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

  James Oppenheim

  Flames, Joy, Age

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

  Gautama Buddha

  Effort, Attention, Pay

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• Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Criticism

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