Daily Happiness Quotes

I find it amazing when coincidences happen. My husband has a coincidence blog where he posts times when he experiences coincidences.

Although, part of me love coincidences; part of me also believes in the law of attraction. Once we focus on something, similar things are attracted to us.

Last week, I started this blog explaining that for years I had saved quotes in various places and I wanted one place to keep them all.

Going on a tangent for a minute, I love reading all kinds of articles. I follow many blogs and websites via RSS. When reading online newspapers, I often will open articles to read later when I have more time. Last Friday, a few days after starting my blog, I opened an article entitled "Sign Up for a daily moment of happiness". I liked the title of this article so opened it to read later. I didn't look at what the article was about until tonight. Gretchen Rubin, the author of the book The Happiness Project is starting to send an email with daily happiness quotes. What are the chances that I start a quote blog the same week that she announces that she will be sending happiness quotes? I met Gretchen when she was interviewed at Indigo last winter. You can read that post here.

In the article she says:

"I take notes whenever I read. I have several notebooks full of quotations, plus two gigantic documents on my computer that I keep meaning to print out. I've had this habit for years; I started my first notebook when I was in sixth grade, and while my taste has changed, the habit has never left me."

"Starting Monday [yesterday], every weekday morning, you can receive a daily email with a short, thoughtful, happiness-related quotation."

I can't believe I've already missed two quotes!! There's a reason I should read things the minute I open them...lesson learned ;-)

You can read the full article here (where you can sign up to receive her quotes yourself). I wonder how many times we will have found the same quotes...or how many times I will be inspired by her quote?

oooh, I guess I should be including a quote with this blog post...what's my favourite Gretchen quote?

"You can choose what you DO, but you can't choose what you LIKE to do."