Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin

… one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn’t aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Men

Mistake

Reading

[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.

Humility

Justice

Order

[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.

Easy

Long

Way

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.

Giving

Healthy Habits

Self

A blog is something that, everyday there’s a new thing and that’s part of the fun of it, you’re just constantly moving forward. A book really gives you more time to reflect and think hard on things very, very deep.

Book

Fun

Moving Forward

A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.

Book

Ideas

Stories

According to current research, in the determination of a person’s level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

Determination

Religious

Thinking

Act the way that you want to feel.

Anxiety

Want

Way

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Happiness

Want

Way

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Family

Happy Memories

Memories

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Absence

Absent

Acceptance

Accepting

Adults

Ambition

Ambitious

Anger

Angry At Someone

Animal

Answers

Anxiety

Appreciate

Architecture

Arriving

Asks

Assuming

Attachment

Attention

Attitude

Authentic Happiness

Beautiful

Bed

Beer

Believe

Best Memories

Bigs

Book

Boost

Calm

Can Do

Cant

Challenges

Change

Changed

Childhood

Children

Choices

Cities

Citizens

Clarity

Coats

Coffee

Comfort

Complaining

Connections

Cotton

Country

Creative

Creativity

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Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin

… one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn’t aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

[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.

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.

A blog is something that, everyday there’s a new thing and that’s part of the fun of it, you’re just constantly moving forward. A book really gives you more time to reflect and think hard on things very, very deep.

A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.

Act the way that you want to feel.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

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