Nonfiction Quote by Gretchen Rubin Download Open image ““...arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate. p 84”” — Gretchen Rubin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nonfiction
“We do realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Happiness often comes in the most unlikely and unexpected situations, when we are not really looking for it.” — Jamie Cat Callan Copy Share Image
“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.” — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
“Happiness like this is frightening…they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“My emotions were arrivals and departures, nonstop insignificances speeding through a station.” — Matthew Aaron Goodman Copy Share Image
“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” — Bernard de Fontanelle Copy Share Image
“So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self. — Gretchen Rubin 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 complain, the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“one Secret of Adulthood is “Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense’”? “And” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL… — Gretchen Rubin 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 about themselves.… — Gretchen Rubin 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 I do… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
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… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“There are times in the lives of most of us,” observed William Edward Hartpole Lecky, “when we would have given all the world to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“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 in fact, the truth was slightly different: I thought I didn't like music, but in fact, I didn't approve of my own taste--I wished I liked sophisticated music, like jazz or classical or esoteric rock. Instead,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share
If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter. — 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 take on… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked. It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Don’t chalk it up to… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting… — Jane Taylor Starwood Copy Share
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
