Gretchen Rubin Quotes - Page 4

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• It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

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  Light, Easy, Heavy

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Sep 28, 2014

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• Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Pouring

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 12, 2012

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• Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

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  Home, Doors, Waiting

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• 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

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  Littles, Embrace, Happens

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• Outer order contributes to inner calm.

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  Order, Calm

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 20, 2015

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• I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

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  Happy Life, Foundation, My Own

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life”, p.25, Broadway Books

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• A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.

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  Self, Healthy Habits, Giving

  "What Are Your Treats? Do You Have Any That Don’t Look Like Treats?". gretchenrubin.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

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  Selfish, People, Goal

  "Are You Happy Now?". Chat with readers, www.slate.com. January 15, 2009.

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• I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.

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  Letting Go, Make Me Happy, Wells

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• If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.

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  Running, Morning, School

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• I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

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  Happy Life, Order, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• [Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

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  Humility, Order, Justice

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

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  Spiritual, Religious, People

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. January 15, 2009.

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• I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

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  Self, Focus, Feelings

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Wish

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

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  People, Assuming, Critical

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

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  Perfect, Perfection, Shakers

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Oct 08, 2013

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• One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

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  Decision, Secret, Research

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Sep 22, 2014

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• One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.

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  Fun, Assuming

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• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

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  Long, Underestimate, Periods

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• Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

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  Perfect, Enemy

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• I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That, "If it works for you it's going to work for me," and it's just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that's do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day.

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  Morning, Thinking, Giving

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• Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

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  Letting Go, Daughter, Nuts

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• He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

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  Fate, Soul, Mates

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• The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

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  Selfish, Discipline, Generosity

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