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Book: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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  1. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    I did, however, vow to stop reading books that I didn't enjoy. I used to pride myself on finishing every book I started-no longer.
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  2. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Our lives are in the space between Isaiah Berlin's "We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail an irreparable loss" and Borges's Garden of Forking Paths, where every choice produces a quantum explosion of alternate future.
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  3. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Don't grieve limitations
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  4. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Epicurus agreed, albeit in slightly more poetic phraseology: "Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
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  5. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Any single happy experience may be amplified or minimized, depending on how much attention you give it."
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  6. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    I was comforted by the words of my model Benjamin Franklin, who reflected of his own chart: "On the whole, though I never arrived at perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man that I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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  7. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    My ambition, however, was also a factor in leaving the law. I'd become convinced that passion was a critical factor in professional success... "I could see that in my co-clerks at the Supreme Court: they read law journals for fun, they talked about cases during their lunch hours, they felt energized by their efforts. I didn't.
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  8. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    ...perhaps the most acute source of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea–the kind of idea that takes hundreds of pages to capture.
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  9. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    But perhaps the most acute sense of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea - the kind of idea that takes hundreds of pages to capture.
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  10. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    We all know the secret of dieting - eat better, eat less, exercise more - it's the application that's challenging.
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  11. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    People have an inborn disposition that's set within a certain range, but they can boost themselves to the top of their happiness range or push themselves down to the bottom of their happiness range by their actions.
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  12. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Exercise for sanity not vanity.
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