“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity”

—  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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