Gretchen Rubin Quotes

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.

Making things easy is hard.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Weightless is a great equalizer.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

All things want to float.

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

I think you can imagine everyone has ankle weights on, or technology, and there's a reason that people aren't floating around. But I also liked this idea that in this world, people forgot they can swim. The modern world weighs you down, there's always emails to check, you've gotta go to your job and pay your mortgage. You're not really thinking, "Oh, yeah, I can swim around." BoJack discovering it is a big deal, and kind of fun.

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?