Equanimity Quotes - Page 5

• Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Pain, Anger

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• 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

  Believe, Men, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Failure, Adversity, Men

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 5

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• To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Frustration, World

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

  Laurie Anderson

  Spiritual, Practice, People

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.

  Art Hoppe

  Player, Tennis, Males

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