Gretchen Rubin

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

— Gretchen Rubin

Outer order contributes to inner calm.

— Gretchen Rubin

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

— Gretchen Rubin

Relationships make me happy.

— Gretchen Rubin

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

— Gretchen Rubin

Look for happiness under your own roof.

— Gretchen Rubin

“day three days a week for six weeks,”

— Gretchen Rubin

Writing makes me happy.

— Gretchen Rubin

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

— Gretchen Rubin

Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.

— Gretchen Rubin

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

— Gretchen Rubin

“What you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while.”

— Gretchen Rubin

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

— Gretchen Rubin

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

— Gretchen Rubin

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

— Gretchen Rubin

You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.

— Gretchen Rubin

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.”

— Gretchen Rubin

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me…

— Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

— Gretchen Rubin

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will…

— Gretchen Rubin

“It’s easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.”

— Gretchen Rubin

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things…

— Gretchen Rubin

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

— Gretchen Rubin

“When I focus on the way "men" or "husbands" generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I…

— Gretchen Rubin

“...perhaps the most acute source of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea–the kind of idea that…

— Gretchen Rubin

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. If we have habits that work for us,…

— Gretchen Rubin

“couldn’t just jump into this happiness project. I had a lot to learn before I was ready for my year to begin.…

— Gretchen Rubin

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their…

— Gretchen Rubin

“I realized that for my own part, I was much more likely to take risks, reach out to others, and expose myself…

— Gretchen Rubin

“I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing…

— Gretchen Rubin

“The bus was hardly moving, but I could hardly keep pace with my own thoughts. “I’ve got to tackle this,” I told…

— Gretchen Rubin

“For work: I bought some pens. Normally, I used makeshift pens, the kind of unsatisfactory implements that somehow materialized in my bag…

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“Happy people generally are more forgiving, helpful, and charitable, have better self-control, and are more tolerant of frustration than unhappy people, while…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Thoreau admonished, “Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that…

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One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I…

— Gretchen Rubin

“The Habits Manifesto What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while. Make it easy to…

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It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted…

— Gretchen Rubin

I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is…

— Gretchen Rubin