Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Equanimity

Success and failure are weather; you are the sky.

Welcome the pleasant lightly; meet the unpleasant calmly.

Honour and insult are weather; you are the sky.

Don't let the scoreboard set your inner weather.

Enjoy without gripping; refuse without hating.

Be an ocean: let every desire arrive and none overflow you.

Envy shrinks when gratitude grows.

Joy and sorrow visit; neither lives here.

Calm that survives both pleasure and pain is real.

See the person before the label of friend or enemy.

You may fall out of calm a hundred times; that is part of the path.

See without grabbing and without pushing away.

Do not hate your states when they come, nor cling when they go.

You do not have to react to every inner movement.

Stay the same in pleasure and pain.

Be steady whether praised or blamed.

Praise and blame are weather; your centre stays.

Victory can unsettle the mind as much as defeat.

Let sorrow pass through like weather, not move in like a tenant.

A balanced mind carries no scoreboard.

Equality of mind is freedom you can live in today.

Do not cling to the good moment, and do not curse the bad one.

Stay steady in cold and heat, praise and blame.

Equanimity is being yourself whatever the weather.

Meet friend and foe with the same open mind.

Ask: how would this feel if it were happening to me?

Between like and dislike lies a quiet clarity.

Be free of both pride in success and shame in failure.

Fame and infamy are also weather; do not live in either.

Meet hard tasks with a calm heart.

Let your calm become someone else's comfort.

Don’t cling to the pleasant or flee the unpleasant.

Don’t let anyone’s opinion hold your self-respect hostage.

Even-mindedness in good and bad events is a quiet strength.

Peace is no fight with your moods.

No state needs to be loved or hated.

Let each state pass without a verdict.

Do not chase the good days; do not curse the bad.

Equanimity is a gentle welcome of whatever arrives.

Non-reaction is a form of strength.

Rest in yourself and the outer weather matters less.

Be the same in honour and in insult.

Equal goodwill toward friend and foe is a sign of freedom.

Stop building identities from praise and slights.

Pleasure and pain are two coats; you are neither.

Tumult outside is a test of stillness within.

Heat and cold, joy and pain: all visitors, none permanent.

One who stays steady in pleasure and pain is ready for freedom.

Meet gain and loss with the same steady hands.

A wise mind carries neither pride in the good nor guilt over the bad.

Meet gain and loss with the same quiet face.

A free heart neither chases nor pushes away.

Even-mindedness is a quiet victory.

Let neither triumph nor trouble shake your centre.

A peaceful mind is the same in comfort and in hardship.

Equal regard for all is a sign of a mature heart.

Begin each day with an open hand and an open mind.

Whether praised or blamed, you remain the same person.

Don’t let the world’s noise set your inner weather.

Treat friend and foe with the same steady dignity.

Steady love survives both fortune and misfortune.

Let both desired and undesired events pass through you calmly.

Welcome clarity, accept restlessness, allow fog; none stays.

Freedom from preferences is a quiet joy.

Be unconcerned like a hill in the rain.

Equal regard for the dear and the disliked is a mature heart.

Let go of the need to win every side.

Be fair to everyone, even those who are not fair to you.

Admiration is weather; steadiness is climate.

Endure it gracefully; it did not come to stay.

Receive what the world gives without being shaken by it.

Other people's wins take nothing from your share.

A mind settled in equality has already crossed the sea.

Evenness is love without favourites.

Honour and insult are weather; the mind need not storm.

When praise and blame weigh the same, you are free.

Even-handed love is the highest form of fairness.

What hurts you hurts them; what helps you helps them.

Equal regard for all begins with imagining their experience.

Every pair of opposites is an invitation to look deeper.

A steady heart is not shaken by praise or blame of results.

Be a calm presence in a restless room.

Untroubled does not mean uncaring; it means unshaken.

Welcome what comes; release what goes.

Praise and blame are only sounds; let them pass.

Don’t hate the hard task; don’t cling to the easy one.

Be the same person in victory and in defeat.

To see all beings equally is the heart of compassion.

Whatever you feel now has arrived, and it will leave.

Nothing outside can disturb a mind that rests in itself.

Even-mindedness is practised, not waited for.

An even heart is not cold; it simply refuses to be hijacked.

Rise above the pairs of pleasure and pain.

Rest in evenness, and rest in the highest.

Equal in praise and blame, you are no longer pushed around.

Gain and loss are guests; be a gracious host.

Stable inside, you can weather what is outside.

Hold the same goodwill for the helper and the harmer.

Wish the best even for those who wish you harm.

Wanting steadiness and struggling for it are not contradictions.

Calm runs both ways: don’t unsettle, don’t be unsettled.

Let good fortune and bad both pass through you.

Your worth doesn’t rise and fall with your luck.

Pleasure and pain are visitors, not landlords.

Success and failure should not rearrange your character.

Peace within becomes kindness without.

Unity does not need identical voices.

Pleasure and pain are waves crossing the same sea.

Discomfort is a messenger, not a resident.

Equal-mindedness is the doorway to lasting peace.

Be like the immovable: let events pass through without moving you.

Peace does not have to wait for certainty.

Answer slander with steadiness, not with sharper words.

Act with an even mind and no weight of regret follows.

Peace about outcomes frees you to give your all.

Let events be what they are; add no extra liking or disliking.

Serenity comes to those who stop bargaining with every like and dislike.

Desires flow in like rivers; inner fullness keeps the shore.

Let wants pass through like rivers; keep your own level.

To be balanced toward all is to stand in the truth.

Love close ones deeply, and still keep a place for strangers.

Stay level in pain and pleasure, and others can lean on you.

Reaction is a habit; stillness can become one too.

Be fair to all sides, and let no side own you.

Pain is information, not an order to quit.

An even mind meets every task the same way.

To welcome the unwelcome task is to be free of it.

Free of likes and dislikes, action finds its true shape.

The middle is where perspective lives.

Don't build a home inside a feeling.

Patience is the art of letting passing things pass.

Steadiness is a skill that can be grown.

However you understand life, there is a way to meet it with calm.

You can differ about the nature of life and still choose steadiness.

Make peace with what is certain, so you can be present for what is not.

Criticism can be loud and unkind; keep your centre.

Know your strength quietly, so others' words cannot shrink it.

Pleasure and pain, win and lose: let none of them decide your effort.

Equanimity is the quiet permission to act without fear.

Between pleasure and pain there is a calm place; learn to stand there.

Be rooted in yourself, and the world's swings pass over you.

Which part of your work could stay unchanged, win or lose?

Neither cheer too loudly nor curse too quickly.

Meet every outcome as a guest, not as an enemy or a king.

Let your preferences stay preferences; don't let them become commands.

A deep mind absorbs wants without being moved by them.

Be glad for what arrives unasked.

Stop keeping score of who you favour and who you resent.

Fairness grows when favourites fade.

Even the willing find steadiness hard.

A balanced mind offers everyone the same fairness.

A steady self can release what it cannot control.

Equal-mindedness is not coldness; it is fairness with a warm heart.

What you can bear evenly, you can bear well.

Wisdom sees tasks, not likes and dislikes.

Calm is the mark of one not ruled by liking.

Peace is what the heart feels when it stops defending itself.

What feels endless today will soon be a memory.

Bear the moment without making it your identity.

Whatever shakes you shows where your roots are shallow.

Stay level through highs and lows; it is a quiet kind of strength.

If life is a river, learn to float, not to fight.

Not every slander deserves a reply.

An even mind makes work clean.

Free yourself from the see-saw of likes and dislikes.

A steady mind sees the task more clearly.

A heart that keeps wanting to want never rests.

Contentment is a deep sea; craving is a shallow pool that keeps spilling over.

Insight frees you from taking every wave personally.

Your preferences are weather, not a compass.

Meet pleasant and unpleasant things with the same steady attention.

Contentment is wealth no one can tax.

A calm heart is not bought by comfort.

Even joy can overexcite; steadiness keeps it sweet.

Let happiness visit; don’t ask it to stay.

Meet insult with composure and it loses its power.

Responsibility without resentment is the mark of the steady.

Equal regard for all is the fruit of a quiet heart.

Free of grief and craving, you can truly be present for others.

Which of your reactions would you most like to steady?

When those you respect misjudge you, it stings; steadiness helps.

Treat victory and defeat as one teacher in two coats.

The good deserve respect; so does everyone's humanity.

Offer the same warmth to the powerful and the powerless.

Keep your kindness the same on good days and bad.

A mind that flattery cannot sway, insult cannot steer.

Freedom from opposites is a calm that needs no company.

Learn to see coming, staying, and going as one flow.

Steady in pleasant work and unpleasant work alike.

Let preferences advise, not command.

A calm heart does not ask life to be different.

Peace at both poles is the mark of a ripe mind.

Hurtful words say more about the speaker than about you.

What changes in your effort if gain and loss weigh the same to you?

Calm comes from seeing that moods and actions are processes.

Rise above your moods and stay good to everyone.

Don’t absorb every agitation you meet.

Gain, loss, and everything in between: let none of them own you.

Don’t let a mood decide your day.

Where does your steadiness break most easily?

Which state do you most resist, and what if you simply allowed it?

What shakes your steadiness most: praise, blame, or loss?

Whom do you treat differently, and why?

Whom do you think of as an enemy, and could you soften toward them?

What shakes your calm most easily?

Whose success are you finding hard to celebrate?

How are you reacting to the pleasant and the unpleasant today?

Where could more evenness serve you today?

Let balance be how you work, not a reward for finishing.

A steady mind is neither crushed by pain nor carried off by pleasure.

Love your family without owning them.

Your balance is your liberation, here and now.

The deepest security is inner steadiness.

Be like the sky: let storms pass through you.

Stability is staying yourself in every kind of weather.

Enjoy gently, knowing it passes.

Not too high, not too low: find your balanced place.

Judge others' joys and sorrows by your own.

Much of life is tide; the art is to float well.

Face your hardest duty with steadiness, not with hatred.

Seeing the changeless loosens the grip of every change.

Peace comes not at the end of the climb but at the letting go.

Be someone the world does not have to brace against.

Freedom is wanting neither more nor less than what is.

Equal sight is the mark of real wisdom.

Freedom is finding that you need no enemies.

Every result you stop gripping gives your peace more room.

Take good news and bad news with the same posture.

Seek the joy that does not depend on moods.

Do your part and sit back in equanimity.

Don’t hang your peace on someone else’s approval.

Equality begins with recognising the same knower in everyone.

Cling less to pleasure, cling less to pain; your path grows lighter.

When a state leaves, let it go without grief.

Stand firm and do not waver when moods swirl.

Value what is valuable without being owned by it.

Honour and dishonour are both borrowed clothes.

Beings rise and fall; the witness remains.

Serene in the Self, one neither grieves nor craves.

Same effort, whether the day ends in praise or silence.

Wisdom steadies the hand that results make tremble.

Contentment within makes the outer chase optional.

Don’t let attraction or aversion make your decisions.

A steady mind rides both the high and the low.

Be impartial in your goodwill, as the divine is.

Understanding causes cuts through both pride and despair.

A good keel does not stop storms; it keeps the ship upright.

Praise and blame are borrowed opinions; don't mortgage yourself to either.

Likes and dislikes are the chains; loosen them.

The joy that comes from within cannot be taxed by circumstance.

Like and dislike are leashes; slip them gently.

Rise above the pull of opposites; neither crave nor reject.

Sorrow visits everyone; steadiness decides how long it stays.

Wisdom is not tossed about by luck.

Calm that depends on results is borrowed calm.

Sorrow may visit; steadiness remains the host.

Calm is not earned by results; it is released from them.

Heat and cold pass; the one who feels them remains.

Experiences rotate; awareness stays steady.

Different natures, different duties, equal dignity.

Respond; don’t react.

Let the highest in you stay level through every season.

Anxiety fades when you stop rehearsing disasters.

Stay impartial: truth first, preference second.

Steady judgement is a quiet kind of freedom.

Dispassion is a calm that does not depend on circumstances.

Peace begins where the effort to control ends.

What cannot be dried or wetted cannot be diminished by moods.

Enjoy, but keep one hand free.

Every sensation is a meeting that ends.

Clarity, calm and contentment form a steady ground.

Observe the play of nature; don’t personalise it.

Work with all you have, and welcome what comes.

Be steady in work and light in heart.

Beyond opposites, bondage is easy to leave.

Great and small alike rest on the same support.