Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Know your own happiness.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

Happiness is an inside job.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.