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.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play "The Blue Bird," where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home.

Gretchen Rubin

Tag: happiness backyard blue-bird

Vai alla citazione

---

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

I wasn't sure how to answer. Could I tell him that one Secret of Adulthood is "Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense'"?

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

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

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

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.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

Gretchen Rubin

Vai alla citazione

---

« prima precedente
Pagina 6 di 9.
prossimo ultimo »

---

---