Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Success isn’t important. What’s important is that one is happy and doing things one enjoys.”

— Marty Rubin

452. “When you enjoy a thought or activity, it’s irrelevant whether it’s meaningful or not.”

— Marty Rubin

453. “Wise men count backward toward zero. They know that’s where contentment lies.”

— Marty Rubin

454. “Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.”

— Marty Rubin

455. “Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.”

— Marty Rubin

456. “Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.”

— Marty Rubin

457. “A cheerful readiness is what seems honest now, facing an uncertain future with humor, grace and dignity.”

— Marty Rubin

458. “Some creatures, like bees, seem to exist for a purpose; while others, like butterflies, seem to exist just to exist.”

— Marty Rubin

459. “How is failure possible? One is always just beginning to live.”

— Marty Rubin

460. “There is more to writing than playing with words.”

— Marty Rubin

461. “An echo has no voice of its own.”

— Marty Rubin

462. “It is better to err on the side of forgiveness.”

— Marty Rubin

463. “A belief in violets isn’t necessary for violets to exist.”

— Marty Rubin

464. “If I didn’t laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

466. “Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.”

— Marty Rubin

467. “Be unprepared, that’s my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.”

— Marty Rubin

468. “If I care about my own life, what do I care if the universe cares or not?”

— Marty Rubin

469. “Names disappear, but not the faces. The faces stay with you.”

— Marty Rubin

470. “A man swallowed a bird every day but still couldn’t fly.”

— Marty Rubin

471. “Ask the wave as it withdraws what freedom is.”

— Marty Rubin

472. “Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.”

— Marty Rubin

473. “A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”

— Marty Rubin

474. “Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.”

— Marty Rubin

475. “The real journey is how we travel, not where.”

— Marty Rubin

476. “In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.”

— Marty Rubin

477. “Whatever hardships or disappointments arose in my life, the solution I always found was to go on living.”

— Marty Rubin

478. “The censors will never approve of you so you might as well do what you like.”

— Marty Rubin

479. “Thinking is a sign of disturbance. You don’t think about things you’re secure about.”

— Marty Rubin

480. “There is more chance than choice in our decisions.”

— Marty Rubin

481. “Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.”

— Marty Rubin

482. “Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.”

— Marty Rubin

483. “Cynic: a dead man walking.”

— Marty Rubin

484. “Seeker, where are you going, and what do you expect to find when you get there?”

— Marty Rubin

485. “One becomes an adult on the day one realizes that others don’t have to share one’s beliefs or concerns.”

— Marty Rubin

486. “My calm is like the tides: never at rest.”

— Marty Rubin

487. “There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.”

— Marty Rubin

488. “A common phrase: I was deceived; an uncommon one: I am deceived.”

— Marty Rubin

489. “Life is not a battle, not a struggle. We impose these burdens on ourselves.”

— Marty Rubin

490. “An aphorism is the insight of a moment, not a lifetime.”

— Marty Rubin

491. “Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever.”

— Marty Rubin

492. “How many deaths before the real one?”

— Marty Rubin

493. “No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.”

— Marty Rubin

494. “Use ideas, don’t let them use you.”

— Marty Rubin

495. “I belong to the church of the turtle and the mourning dove.”

— Marty Rubin

496. “Laughter unties the Gordian Knot.”

— Marty Rubin

497. “One death apiece is plenty.”

— Marty Rubin

498. “Writing is a way of opening up to the world.”

— Marty Rubin

499. “One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart.”

— Marty Rubin

500. “The definition of an aphorism is just another aphorism.”

— Marty Rubin