When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave… — Gretchen Rubin Angry Copy Share Image
If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Studies show that in a phenomenon called “emotional contagion,” we unconsciously catch emotions from other people—whether good moods or bad ones. Taking… — Gretchen Rubin Contagion Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it’s often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to… — Gretchen Rubin Happiness Copy Share Image
Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone… — Gretchen Rubin Appetite Copy Share Image
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are… — Gretchen Rubin Happiness Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness… — Gretchen Rubin Acceptance Copy Share Image
We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or… — Gretchen Rubin Death Copy Share Image
“Plainness was not necessarily simplicity,” Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. “Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day… — Gretchen Rubin Beauty Copy Share Image
Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may… — Gretchen Rubin Authentic happiness Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being… — Gretchen Rubin Ambitious Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she… — Gretchen Rubin Communication Copy Share Image
One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
