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Book: Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
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  1. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    70 percent of long-term gym memberships are mostly unused, but a dog needs walking every day.
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  2. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    Accept myself, and expect more of myself. Give myself limits to give myself freedom. Make people happier by acknowledging that they're not feeling happy. Plan ahead to be spontaneous; only with careful preparation do I feel carefree. Accomplish more by working less. Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. It's very hard to make things easier. My material desires have a spiritual aspect. Hell is other people. Heaven is other people.What was "happiness," anyway, and was it even possible to make myself happier?
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  3. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.
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  4. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    Keep it simple' wasn't always the right response. Many things that boosted my happiness also added complexity to my life. Having children. Learning to post videos to my website. Going to an out-of-town wedding. Applied too broadly, my impulse to 'Keep it simple' would impoverish me. 'Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings,' warned Samuel Johnson, 'let us therefore by cautious how we strip her.
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  5. Gretchen Rubin _ Happier at Home: Kiss More,

    It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.
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