Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

I wanted to be a complete person and realised that the well-being of mental health is extremely important in achieving that.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?

I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.

I'm a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.

I met with my spiritual teacher and went to a therapist. I realized that if I came from a positive place, not only will everyone feel better and I will feel happier, but the company will work better.

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

I haven't really worked with, like, a mental coach or anything.

Self-care is really about taking care of you and focusing on feeling good about yourself - mind and body.

Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.