Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I’ve learned to resist my inclination to meet an expectation unthinkingly, and to ask, Why am I meeting this expectation, anyway?

Keeping a good habit costs us: it may cost time, energy, and money, and it may mean forgoing pleasures and opportunities—but not keeping a good habit also has its cost. So which cost do we want to pay...

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Gretchen Craft Rubin (born December 14, 1965) is an American author, blogger and speaker.

Lewis’s brilliant essay On Three Ways of Writing for Children:

My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain—as Robert Frost wrote, home is Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.

My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain—as Robert Frost wrote, home is Something you somehow haven’t to deserve. At home, I feel a greater sense...

One flashy kind of commitment device is the nuclear option. A friend who enjoys experimenting with strategies of personal productivity used this approach to quit drinking for sixty days. He gave his a...

The habit of bed making is correlated with a sense of greater well-being and higher productivity. Other common broken windows include having a messy car; accumulating piles of laundry or trash; not be...