Gretchen Rubin Quotes
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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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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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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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People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.
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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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The things that go wrong often make the best memories.
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Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
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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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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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There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.
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Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.
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Self-knowledge makes me happy.
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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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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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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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I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.
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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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Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep your mind engaged with your project. When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.
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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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The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.
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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, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
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Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.
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I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.
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You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.
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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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You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.
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Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.
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No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.
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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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We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
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