Gretchen Rubin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.
Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them.
For instance, in The Artist's Way, her influential book about cultivating creativity, Julia Cameron suggests scheduling an artist's date,
With habits, we don't make decisions, we don't use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do - or that we don't want to do.
The desire to start something at the "right" time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.
One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.
In other words, even though one coin certainly isn't sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.
There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.
These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on my mind, they sapped my energy.
One of my most helpful Secrets of Adulthood is What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.
It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more.
It's a Secret of Adulthood: I can't make people change, but when I change, others may change; and when others change, I may change.
It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.
The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good
When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.
A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.
If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.
You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.
One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.
Audiences = expectations. If he thinks you're not watching, he won't need to rebel against your expectations.
It is by studying little things, that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.
The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.
What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while. That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.
[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.
Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.
For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.
Think about appearances. I wanted my apartment to be less cluttered, and also to look less cluttered.
The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.
There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is