Gretchen Rubin Quotes

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

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.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

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

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

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.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

I have tried so many fad diets, I've wasted so much time looking for a solution when it was right in front of me all along - take care of yourself, nourish your body, surround yourself with good people - you will feel good and will shine in all that you do.

Conchita is a symbol of the fact that you just can live a wonderful life when you do what makes you happy.

When you're happy at home, it spills out into every other area of your life.

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.