I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature. — Gretchen Rubin Foundation Copy Share Image
Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value. — Gretchen Rubin Focus Copy Share Image
Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon. — Gretchen Rubin Creativity Copy Share Image
“Pierre Reverdy: “There is no love; there are only proofs of love.” — Gretchen Rubin Love Copy Share Image
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food. — Gretchen Rubin Also Copy Share Image
People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better. — Gretchen Rubin Feels Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your… — Gretchen Rubin Ability Copy Share Image
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. — Gretchen Rubin Although Copy Share Image
To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall… — Gretchen Rubin Anticipate Copy Share Image
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to… — Gretchen Rubin Daily Copy Share Image
In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home. — Gretchen Rubin About Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun. — Gretchen Rubin Fun Copy Share Image
The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a… — Gretchen Rubin Amount Copy Share Image
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you… — Gretchen Rubin Complaining Copy Share Image
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time… — Gretchen Rubin Computer Copy Share Image
What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible… — Gretchen Rubin Achieve Copy Share Image
It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind… — Gretchen Rubin Become Copy Share Image
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and… — Gretchen Rubin Allow Copy Share Image
Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because… — Gretchen Rubin Challenges Copy Share Image
I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have… — Gretchen Rubin Chance Copy Share Image
During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than… — Gretchen Rubin Cite Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has… — Gretchen Rubin Chosen Copy Share Image
I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some… — Gretchen Rubin Because Copy Share Image
“Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them… — Gretchen Rubin Happiness Copy Share Image
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential… — Gretchen Rubin Actually Copy Share Image
“Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our own making, a place of safety, exploration, comfort, and love.” — Gretchen Rubin Door Copy Share Image
“Think about appearances. I wanted my apartment to be less cluttered, and also to look less cluttered.” — Gretchen Rubin Cluttered Copy Share Image
I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the… — Gretchen Rubin Attention Copy Share Image
There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have… — Gretchen Rubin Embrace Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure how to answer. Could I tell him that one Secret of Adulthood is "Never start a sentence with the… — Gretchen Rubin Secret Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Temperance Copy Share Image
Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big… — Gretchen Rubin Big Copy Share Image
Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy. — Gretchen Rubin Happiness Copy Share Image
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. — Gretchen Rubin Beautiful Copy Share Image
“As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations… — Gretchen Rubin Nonfiction Copy Share Image
There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them,… — Gretchen Rubin Kind Copy Share Image
Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have. — Gretchen Rubin Funny Copy Share Image
I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a… — Gretchen Rubin About Copy Share Image
