Gretchen Rubin Quote

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.