Equanimity Quote by Anne Lamott Download Open image “Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.” — Anne Lamott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Equanimity Gratitude Joy Learning Secret Understanding
I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw. — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key. — Stephanie Ellis Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Joy and gratitude can be very vulnerable and intense experiences. We are an anxious people and many of us have very little tolerance for… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity. — Philemon Copy Share Image
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining,… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
