Marty Rubin Quotes

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

Because I took the sun for granted it shone on me.

Optimists think badly, but live well.

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

oYu begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.

A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid.

Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.

The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

A story has value whether it's true or not.

All lovers meet and love by chance.

Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.

Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers.

What we invent, we become

Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth.

Those who lack experience always have a lot of ideas.

One's duty is always and everywhere to be true to one's own experience.

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.

Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side.

I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.

It is better to do something you like than to think about what you don't like.

It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.

When you act without feeling, that's the living death.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love.

There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.

I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are.

Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself.

The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.

You can't know people, only their names.

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.

My advice to you is to dance while you still can.

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost.