Marty Quotes

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

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

Life is nothing, if you feel nothing.

The only way to live well is to feel intensely.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

Who gave fire permission to burn?

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later.

The love of life begins with the love of one person.

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.

You have to let the balloon go if you want to see it fly.

Seize the day, then let it go.

It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.

Humor is the salvation of those without hope.

The thought of death destroys some people and saves others.

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all.

Pretending is one of our greatest pleasures. But you have to know you're pretending.

May your wants be few and your pleasures many.

There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about.

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.

We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give.

You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

Geniuses are a dime a dozen. The truly tolerant are rare.

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

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

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

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

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

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

More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.

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

If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.