Gretchen Rubin

The Happiness Project

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  • Dessy Andrianskahas quoted5 years ago
    “Happy people don’t need to have fun,” but in fact, studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn’t enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    Act the way I want to feel.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    tackling a long-delayed chore
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    I started to apply the “one-minute rule” I didn’t postpone any task that could be done in less than one minute.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    “Try a ‘virtual move,’” another friend added. “I just did it myself. Walk around your apartment and ask yourself—if I were moving, would I pack this or get rid of it?”
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    Junk attracts more junk.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    Do what ought to be done.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    Apparently, other people, like me, believe that their physical surroundings influence their spiritual happiness.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    “Hawthorne effect,” in which people being studied improve their performance, simply because of the extra attention they’re getting.
  • pure herohas quoted7 years ago
    One of my worst qualities is my insatiable need for credit; I always want the gold star, the recognition. One night when I was in high school, I came home late from a party and decided to surprise my mother by cleaning up our messy kitchen. She came downstairs the next morning and said, “What wonderful fairy came in the night and did all this work?” and looked so pleased. More than twenty years later, I still remember that gold star, and I still want more of them.
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