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Habit Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

15 Habit quotes by Gretchen Rubin

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Gretchen Rubin’s habit collection feels like a friendly chat about the small choices that make life more satisfying. Her reflections blend research with personal anecdotes, giving readers a warm invitation to examine how daily practices affect wellbeing.

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Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

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Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to…

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I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

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

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Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead…

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When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that…

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When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave…

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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…

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Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so…

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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…

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A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that…

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In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite…

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I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That,…

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Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may…

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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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During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do…

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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…

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“There are times in the lives of most of us,” observed William Edward Hartpole Lecky, “when we would have given all the world to…

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“I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of "Being Gretchen," I didn't really like music, but…

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If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.

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“The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on…

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