Gretchen Rubin Quotes

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I look great because I'm happy.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.