Marty Rubin Quotes

Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.

More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.

Eternity: the length of a life.

Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer.

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard.

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

When set out to create order, they create only misery.

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.

If one bite fills you, you don't need two.

My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are.

When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

The only way to live well is to feel intensely.

Life is nothing, if you feel nothing.

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

If love is not the answer, what is the question?

What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Sometimes just breathing is enough.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

Flowers are the music of the earth.

I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

To speak of happiness is to create happiness.

To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life.

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

Life itself is the lesson.

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.

An echo has no voice of its own.

Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.