Quotes of Equanimity - somelinesforyou

“ It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life. ”

- Pamela Anderson

“ To think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ You can't have genius without patience. ”

- Margaret Deland

“ We showed a lot of toughness and determination to come back from last night and not allow that to carry over. ”

- Steve Nash

“ The less said the better. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Nothing is so full of victory as patience. He that can have patience can have what he will. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself. ”

- St. Francis De Sales

“ Patience is serenity in the face of insanity. ”

- Anne Wilson Schaef

“ There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ”

- Washington Irving

“ For ye have need of patience. ”

- Bible

“ Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ He that can have patience can have what he will. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ”

- Louis XIV

“ 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

“ 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

“ Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ 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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Edward Hoagland
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