Top 100 Quotes About Equanimity

#1. He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

Michael Robotham

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#2. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

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#3. It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Oscar Wilde

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#4. 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

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#5. Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

Dada Bhagwan

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#6. 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

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#7. Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.'
'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.'
Elena flinched. 'Elena.'
Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness - absolute power is a corruption.

Nalini Singh

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#8. Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Jack Kornfield

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#9. [T]o 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

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#10. We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

Allan Lokos

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#11. In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

Horace

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#12. 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

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#13. You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

Christina Baker Kline

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#14. 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

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#15. 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

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#16. There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Miguel Ruiz

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#17. To preserve openness of heart and calmness of mind, nurture these attitudes:

Kindness to those who are happy
Compassion for those who are less fortunate
Honor for those who embody noble qualities
Equanimity to those whose actions oppose your values

Nischala Joy Devi

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#18. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.

Ramananda Prasad

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#19. Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Publilius Syrus

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#20. The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.

Steven Erikson

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#21. 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

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#22. He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#23. 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

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#24. Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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#25. Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

Laozi

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#26. 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

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#27. His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

Laura Hillenbrand

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#28. 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

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#29. Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Amit Ray

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#30. 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

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#31. 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

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#32. 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

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#33. Control the senses, practice equanimity. Live by disciplinary rules. Associate with good friends who are not lazy and live purely. Be courteous and well-mannered, and thus, full of joy. Put an end to suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#34. When people say, "Don't just sit there, do something," they're urging you to act. But if the quality of your being is poor - if you don't have enough peace, understanding, and equanimity, if you still have a lot of anger and worries - then your actions will also be poor.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#35. Everyone's unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis' (Self-realized person's) duty.

Dada Bhagwan

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#36. Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems - this too shall pass, and about happiness - it is my constant companion.

Lamees Alhassar

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#37. When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones; that is considered equanimity.

Dada Bhagwan

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#38. The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Sharon Salzberg

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#39. He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

Zhuangzi

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#40. Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

Doris Lessing

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#41. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

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#43. Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.

Patanjali

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#44. One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

William Osler

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#45. What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

William Osler

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#46. 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

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#47. When we spend money on others, for example, we feel more content than when we spend money on ourselves. This is a kind of well-being rooted in meaning, connection, and equanimity - called eudaimonia by the ancient Greeks and in modern times perhaps called "inner" or "true" happiness.

Daniel J. Siegel

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#48. To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

Pema Chodron

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#49. Mindful awareness / Mindful (Res):Awareness of present-moment experience, with intention and purpose, without grasping on to judgments. Traits of being mindful are having an open stance toward oneself and others, emotional equanimity, and the ability to describe the inner world of the mind.

Daniel J. Siegel

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#50. Failure teaches you more in life than success does. Dealing with success is easy; accepting disappointments with equanimity and harnessing the energy of failure to achieve greater heights are the greatest lessons in life,

Indu Bhan

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#51. If at all the energies of the Soul (Atmashakti) gets wasted, it is due to conflicts. Endless energy is lost due to conflicts! Even with slightest collision (conflict) it is all over! If we maintain equanimity with awareness and do not conflict with the other person, then work will go on.

Dada Bhagwan

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#52. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Gautama Buddha

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#53. The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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#54. When you are angry, your blood pressure rises, you forget the basic norms of good behavior, you start shouting, you even use foul language and dig out all the past corpses of incidents afresh to ruin your future. So, choose to remain peaceful and stable --- whatever the situation.

Sanchita Pandey

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#55. Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

J. Oswald Sanders

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#56. Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

Sharon Salzberg

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#57. A loss is often a win delayed. A win at times is a loss defrayed. Equanimity with either is the real crusade.

Rashid Osmani

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#58. 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

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#59. Doesn't the bible say "blessed are the pure in the heart, so they shall see God?" when?
Only when there is purity in the heart; a heart peaceful and free from egoism
the "I" and the "mine." Purity of heart and equanimity of mind are the very essence of Yoga.

Swami Satchidananda

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#60. Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#61. Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#62. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

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#64. She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

E. M. Forster

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#65. 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

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#66. Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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#67. Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

Amit Ray

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#68. Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Subhash Chandra

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#69. If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.

Ulrich Von Hutten

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#70. Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
[Trans. Purohit Swami]

Anonymous

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#71. A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

Allan Lokos

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#72. How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!

Charles Dickens

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#73. Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Anne Lamott

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#74. 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

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#75. A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates the strength of mind to let them arise and pass without identifying with or acting upon them.

Stephen Batchelor

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

Sharon Salzberg

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#77. Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques - he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.

Jack Kornfield

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#78. There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

Auberon Waugh

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#79. Not everyone could have the blissful equanimity of Lamen, who seemed to pay the Prince no deference of rank, a piece of very good acting. Charls

C.S. Pacat

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#80. Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Allan Lokos

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#81. She would become, through the years, a woman who expected the worst, to relieve herself of the anxiety of hope. She would become a woman of calm, fatalistic principles, anticipating her life with the equanimity of a weather forecaster.

Joyce Carol Oates

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#82. But let a perpetual smile
of peace and satisfaction
On your lips
Be a symbol of the decision
To think happiness (equanimity)
Since everything that happens
Happens in your head

Jack Kerouac

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#83. Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.

Seneca.

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#84. Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.

Ernest Becker

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#85. Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit)

Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

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#86. 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

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#87. 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

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#88. 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

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#89. A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#90. The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Nhat Hanh

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#91. We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

Leigh Hunt

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#92. If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

Zhuangzi

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#93. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.

Herman Melville

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#94. Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed.

John Boyne

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#95. Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.

Neil Smith

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#96. 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

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#97. 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

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#98. Surrender creates equanimity and bliss because you release yourself from any attachment to the results.

Annette Vaillancourt

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#99. Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.

Chris Matakas

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#100. 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

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