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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
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Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.
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Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.
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One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.
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Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
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The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
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Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.
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The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.
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We are happy when we are growing.
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People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.
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Time waits for no ovary.
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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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It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.
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[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.
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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?
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Act the way that you want to feel.
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Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.
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Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.
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Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
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In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of religiosity, such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.
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I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, no gossiping, no nagging.
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