Gretchen Rubin Quotes

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain.

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Just do what makes you happy....sounds simple, doesn't it ?

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that.