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Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make Room for Happiness

By Gretchen Rubin — 2019

In my study of happiness, I’ve realized that for most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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