“Look for happiness under your own roof.”

—  Gretchen Rubin

Source: 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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American writer 1966

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