Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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• 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.

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  Choices, Different, Way

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• Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

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  Want Something, Feelings, Clarity

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• I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

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  Want, Can Do, I Can

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• Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.

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  Focus, Values

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 15, 2013

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

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  Loneliness, Happy Life, Play

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.

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  Letting Go, Attitude, Struggle

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• Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

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  Keys, Self, Mastery

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• Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

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  Everyday, Architecture, Invisible

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• Do good, feel good; feel good, do good.

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  Feel Good, Feels

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• One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

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  Happiness, Mma, People

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Sep 13, 2015

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• Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.

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  Frustration, Irritation, Skills

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

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• When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

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  Order, Sometimes, Accepting

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• Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Succeed, Sometimes

  "Happiness: Should You Have Goals Or Resolutions?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2008.

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• Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

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• Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.

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  Important, Mastery, Enthusiasm

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• [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.

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  Long, Way, Easy

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): 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.24, HarperCollins

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• Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

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  Mirrors, Self, Knowing

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• I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

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  Fun, Real, Might

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• To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

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  Happiness, Memories, Stages Of Grief

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.37, Harmony

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• The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

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  Memories, Best Memories

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 27, 2015

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• Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.

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  Thoughtful, Angry At Someone, Feelings

  "10 instant tips to be happier now" by Gretchen Rubin, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2009.

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• Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

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  Focus

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2016

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• Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

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  Money, Riches, Pranayama

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• One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

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  Memories, Past, Happy Times

  "7 Reasons Why Photographs Can Boost Your Happiness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

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  Tact, Offense, Sentences

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): 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.13, HarperCollins

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