Top 251 Quotes & Sayings by Gretchen Rubin - Page 5

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.

Gretchen Rubin

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

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Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

Gretchen Rubin

If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.

Gretchen Rubin

If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. "Fake it 'till you feel it." maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.

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I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

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Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

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Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths.

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Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say.

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Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

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Top 251 Quotes & Sayings by Gretchen Rubin - Page 5

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