Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

When I was a kid, I was fat, and I was teased mercilessly. But once I grew up and got out of my unhealthy relationship with food, for the most part I've had a very healthy view. If I ever find myself getting worried about how I'll look on the red carpet, I'll take a step back and look at what's really going on inside.