Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

Gretchen Rubin

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The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.

Jennifer Konner

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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

Mel Brooks

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My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Ann Bancroft

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The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

Robin S. Sharma

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If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

Rupert Murdoch

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City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

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There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Josette Sheeran

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I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Diana Krall

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I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.

Brandi Carlile

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Nobody has any security in loving me.

Brigitte Bardot

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Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Shaukat Aziz

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If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

Shawn Amos

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