Gretchen Rubin Quotes

“Sleep is the new sex.”

“Time waits for no ovary.”

“How we schedule our days is how we spend our lives.”

“The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.”

“The desire to start something at the “right” time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.”

“We won’t make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people’s habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.”

“I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.”

“Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.”

“Arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate.”

“Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability, it turns out, because the single most important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.”

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“I can do anything I want, but I can't do everything I want.”

“I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am.”

“Life is too short to save your good china or your good lingerie or your good anything for later because truly, later may never come.”

“Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.”

“Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense'.”

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”

“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.”

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

“The things that go wrong often make the best memories.”

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

“What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.”