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Book: Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
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  1. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    Gertrude Stein remarked, "Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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  2. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    Waldenlust." This longing takes several forms: fantasies of the freedom that dispossession would bring; nostalgia for earlier, supposedly simpler times; and reverence for the primitive, which is assumed to be more authentic and closer to nature.
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  3. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me.… They remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like-and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
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  4. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    The Levity Effect,
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  5. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    -Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
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  6. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    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.
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  7. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.
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  8. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    A happy home wasn't a place that I could furnish, but an attitude of mind I must develop.
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  9. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain-as Robert Frost wrote, home is "Something you somehow haven't to deserve.
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  10. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    It's hard to do even simple things well, and most things aren't simple. As
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  11. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
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  12. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    A University of Exeter study showed that people who have control over their workspace design are happier at work, more motivated, healthier, and up to 32 percent more productive.
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