Gretchen Rubin (1968-)

Gretchen Rubin quotes

• The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

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• struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.

  Gretchen Rubin

• If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

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• The days are long, but the years are short.

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• Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.

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• Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

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• Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

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• Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

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

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• Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

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• Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability, it turns out, because the single most important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

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• I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

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• However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.

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• Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

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• I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

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