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Gretchen Rubin

"We've all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief: denial, anger, bagaining, depression and acceptance. Â By contrats, I realized, happiness has four stages. Â to eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory."

Source : "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

Gretchen Rubin

#Memories Quotes #Grief Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“You exist! Be ambitious!”
“Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.”
“I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”
“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin
“Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen,”
“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
“If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.”
“Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.”

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