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One Quotes by Gretchen Rubin
- Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
- One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.
- Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful.…
- One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.
- One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you can do yoga…
- Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still…
- Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep your mind engaged…
- No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.
- One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy…
- The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to…
- ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made,…
- One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.
- [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.
- One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt,…
- Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 hours a day? How…
- One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order…
- For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.
- We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be…
- A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel…
- I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I…
- We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle