The Happiness Project Quotes

“how a couple fights matters more than how much they fight.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“nothing was insurmountable if I did what I knew ought to be done, little by little. My”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Studies show that if you reward people for doing an activity, they often stop doing it for fun; being paid turns it into “work.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.        You”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Exercise for sanity not vanity.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Studies show that if you reward people for doing an activity, they often stop doing it for fun; being paid turns it into “work.” Parents, for example, are warned not to reward children for reading—they’re teaching kids to read for a reward, not for pleasure.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“William Butler Yeats. “Happiness,” wrote Yeats, “is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.        Over-the-counter”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” —G. K. Chesterton What’s”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“I later changed my passwords to a goal I’ve been working on, or an achievement I want.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“I’ve been haunted for years by a public service poster I saw just one time, in the subway. It was a photo of a Chinese food take-out container sitting on top of two videos. The caption read, “If this is how you spend your time, why are you living in New York?”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“A recent study showed that 25 percent of Americans don’t get any exercise at all. Just by exercising twenty minutes a day three days a week for six weeks, persistently tired people boosted their energy.”
― Gretchen Craft Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Being asleep is a great way to avoid being critical.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“impunity.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Maurice Maeterlinck’s play The Blue Bird.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Lewis’s brilliant essay “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”:”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“book Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill (“I”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“People’s biggest worries include financial anxiety, health concerns, job insecurity, and having to do tiring and boring chores.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“another reason not to say critical things about other people: “spontaneous trait transference.” Studies show that because of this psychological phenomenon, people unintentionally transfer to me the traits I ascribe to other people.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“One of the best ways to make myself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy myself.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“from Lewis’s brilliant essay “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

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― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn’t as happy as I could be, and my life wasn’t going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“There’s no evidence for the belief that “letting off steam” is healthy or constructive. In fact, 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.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project