Gretchen Rubin Love Quotations

I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.