"It was time to expect more of myself.……" — Gretchen Rubin
"It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously -- and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition."
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117 Quotes by Gretchen Rubin
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Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
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