Gretchen Rubin Quotes - Page 5

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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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• One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

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  Falling In Love, Love Is, Extraordinary Person

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• Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Different

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

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

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  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

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  Feels, Paperwork, Authentic Happiness

  "5 Tips I Used This Morning To Help Myself Feel Calmer" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

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  Practice, Important, Elements

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• Time waits for no ovary.

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  Waiting, Ovaries

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• The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

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  Feel Good, Feelings, Absence

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• Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.

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  Sleep, Exercise, Challenges

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• There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

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  Nice, Cotton, Preppy

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• We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

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  Exercise, Our Actions, Absent

  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.14, Harper Collins

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• Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

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  Ordinary Days, Appreciate, Work Harder

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• Forbearance is a form of generosity.

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  Generosity, Forbearance, Form

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• Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about not going to the opera or pretending that I want to attend a foreign policy lecture, I have more time for the things that I truly enjoy.

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  People, Feelings, Wish

  "Find Time for Fun" by Gretchen Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

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  Happy Life, Thinking, Keys

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• Act the way that you want to feel.

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  Anxiety, Want, Way

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• Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Attachment

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• No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.

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  Regret, Changed

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2015

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• Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

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  Helping Others, Volunteer, Boost

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.213, Harmony

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• The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

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  Issues, Effort, Doe

  "Test Yourself: Do You Have Clutter Mentality?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.

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  Animal, Past, People

  "Don’t Train Yourself Like a Dog" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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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.

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  Two, Made, Two Things

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• One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

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  Childhood, Important, Lessons

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.138, Harmony

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• Now is now. Here is my treasure.

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  Treasure

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.235, Harmony

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• Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

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  People, Make Me Happy, I Can

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.28, Hachette UK

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