“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
As quoted in Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place (1994) by Bob Stromberg, p. 69.
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