Gretchen Rubin quotes

Gretchen Rubin is a renowned author and speaker known for her books on happiness and habit formation. With a background in law, she transitioned to writing to explore ways to improve daily life. Her best-selling books, including "The Happiness Project" and "Better Than Before," have inspired readers to make positive changes. Rubin's practical advice and insightful observations have earned her a loyal following. Stay updated on her latest work and speaking engagements to discover new ways to enhance your own happiness and productivity.

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

- Gretchen Rubin

The days are long, but the years are short.

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin

Arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate.

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

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

- Gretchen Rubin

Time waits for no ovary.

- Gretchen Rubin

Sleep is the new sex.

- Gretchen Rubin

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.

- Gretchen Rubin