<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354236" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Equanimity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life in this world<br>at times<br>bestows absolute happiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life in this world<br>at times<br>gives us entire sadness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both are two sides of a coin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When happiness abounds<br>one shouldn't get excited<br>being stirred by it<br>and get overwhelmed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When sadness descends<br>one shouldn't be crest-fallen<br>being dejected by it<br>and get depressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With both joy and gloom<br>one should be undeviating<br>neither jumping with jocundity<br>nor sinking in melancholy<br>but always mid-course keeping<br>essentially the golden mean seeking<br>ever with composure and equanimity being.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chandra+Thiagarajan">Chandra Thiagarajan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354236" data-title="Equanimity de Chandra Thiagarajan" data-description="Life in this world at times bestows absolute happiness. Life in this world at times gives us entire sadness. Both are two sides of a coin. When happiness abounds one shouldn't get excited being stirred by it and get overwhelmed. When sadness d..."></div> </div> </div>

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