Herzfeld And Rubin Quotes

Don't try to understand things and you won't feel confused. ~ Marty Rubin

How about this," I suggested. "Instead of feeling that you've blown the day and thinking, 'I'll get back on track tomorrow,' try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. If you blow one quarter, you get back on track for the next quarter. Fail small, not big. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive. ~ Gretchen Rubin

I've noticed that a lot of people do much better when all their resolutions are framed as 'Yes.' Not something like, "I'm going to give up French Fries," but something like "I'm going to eat three vegetables every day." "I'm going to hug more, kiss more, touch more." "I'm going to listen to more music." They do better when they frame things in the positive. And I think this is just part of human nature. ~ Gretchen Rubin

By attacking the life choices of others we only reveal our own fears and prejudices. ~ Marty Rubin

With all our ideas and explanations we only trivialize life. ~ Marty Rubin

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons," as one of my happiness paradoxes holds. About one-quarter of Americans volunteer, and of those, a third volunteer for more than a hundred hours each year. ~ Gretchen Rubin

It is by studying little things, that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ~ Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness? ~ Gretchen Rubin

The Greeks had Hydra and Cyclops. We have Nietzsche and Pessoa: monsters of introspection and thought. ~ Marty Rubin

Also, as I discovered when I took the Newcastle Personality Assessor, which measures personality according to the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, or OCEAN), ~ Gretchen Rubin

Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything. ~ Marty Rubin

Convention, like Saturn, is a jealous god and eats its babies. ~ Marty Rubin

It struck me, in fact, that all of my work on habits and happiness was meant to help us construct, as much as possible, just that: everyday life in Utopia. Everyday life with deep, loving relationships and productive, satisfying work; everyday life with energy, health, and productivity; everyday life with fun, enthusiasm, and engagement, with as little regret, guilt, or anger as possible. ~ Gretchen Rubin

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. ~ Avi Rubin

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth. ~ Gretchen Rubin

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates. ~ Lillian B. Rubin

Reciprocal illusions: the pessimist's fear and the optimist's hope. ~ Marty Rubin

Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away. ~ Marty Rubin

We need rest from the inexhaustible, from the mind. There is sleep-and meditation-and death. ~ Marty Rubin

We need sentiment and skepticism. Sentiment to be happy; skepticism to be free. ~ Marty Rubin

Lack of sleep negatively affects mood, memory, immune function, and pain sensitivity; it makes people more likely to fight with their partners; it contributes to weight gain. ~ Gretchen Rubin

When you're vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you're eating food that's way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein. ~ Rick Rubin

The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more. ~ Marty Rubin

What people are looking for is someone to explain life to them. But there is no explanation and nothing to explain. ~ Marty Rubin

Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics! ~ Marty Rubin

The least righteous people, and therefore the least dangerous, are the skeptics. ~ Marty Rubin

Every day sing and dance and feel the joy. ~ Marty Rubin

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome. ~ Robert Rubin

Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive. ~ Marty Rubin

Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot
a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life
of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence. ~ Zick Rubin

The most important step is the first step. All those old sayings are really true. Well begun is half done. Don't get it perfect, get it going. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances. ~ Marty Rubin