"Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy……" — Anne Lamott

More Equanimity Quotes

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• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason… — Marcus Aurelius
• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow… — Aberjhani
• For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward… — Jane Lynch
• 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… — Edward Hoagland
• No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his… — Stanley Ellin
• He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and… — Rahul Dravid
• A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are… — Stephen Batchelor
• What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. — Goldie Hawn
• Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't… — Laurel Holloman
• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings… — William James
• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of… — Marcus Aurelius

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