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The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy you must strive to find sources of feeling good
Gretchen Rubin
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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
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I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
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