Gretchen Rubin Quotes

To change what you get you must change who you are.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.

My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.

This is the only life I'm ever going to have, so shouldn't I at least try to be happy?

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.