Gretchen Rubin Quotes

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

You can’t do anything about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug!

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.