Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Love people, not places. Places don’t miss you when you’re gone.”

— Marty Rubin

102. “Words without warmth are dead words.”

— Marty Rubin

103. “Rare things are not the most valuable.”

— Marty Rubin

104. “What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.”

— Marty Rubin

105. “Beauty is nonchalance.”

— Marty Rubin

106. “Did morning come? Were there birds singing? That’s the only news I care to know.”

— Marty Rubin

107. “Mediocrity-the artist’s hell.”

— Marty Rubin

108. “If you’re in a hurry, don’t go!”

— Marty Rubin

109. “Censorship is tyranny.”

— Marty Rubin

110. “Lessons are learned, not taught.”

— Marty Rubin

111. “I don’t need anyone to tell me how to be free.”

— Marty Rubin

112. “A woman who needs romantic favors to feel loved will never feel loved.”

— Marty Rubin

113. “Life is nothing, if you feel nothing.”

— Marty Rubin

114. “What one does to kill time is one’s true calling.”

— Marty Rubin

115. “Sometimes patience is hard to distinguish from despair.”

— Marty Rubin

116. “Reinvent yourself. Don’t let your past weigh you down.”

— Marty Rubin

117. “When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.”

— Marty Rubin

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118. “Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

120. “One explains things until things have no meaning anymore.”

— Marty Rubin

121. “Writing exacerbates a wound.”

— Marty Rubin

122. “There should be a law against doing work one doesn’t like or believe in.”

— Marty Rubin

123. “The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.”

— Marty Rubin

124. “The secret of my success: I don’t compare myself to anyone, and I don’t compete with anyone.”

— Marty Rubin

125. “A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.”

— Marty Rubin

126. “It is not important that others like what you like. All that matters is that you like it.”

— Marty Rubin

127. “Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.”

— Marty Rubin

128. “Rebel, and do what you will.”

— Marty Rubin

129. “The poem defies gravity.”

— Marty Rubin

130. “You can’t think away your self-defeating thoughts; you have to dissolve them through action.”

— Marty Rubin

131. “The future cannot be seen even with the most powerful telescopes.”

— Marty Rubin

132. “Never have a plan; it’ll just get in your way.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

134. “May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.”

— Marty Rubin

135. “Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.”

— Marty Rubin

136. “When the cricket’s song is the only sound you hear, how peaceful the whole earth seems.”

— Marty Rubin

137. “If all the haters are against you, you know you must be doing something right.”

— Marty Rubin

138. “Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.”

— Marty Rubin

139. “To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.”

— Marty Rubin

140. “The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other.”

— Marty Rubin

141. “The way to my heart is through your heart.”

— Marty Rubin

142. “I’m not a thief because no one has anything I want.”

— Marty Rubin

143. “It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.”

— Marty Rubin

144. “The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.”

— Marty Rubin

145. “Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.”

— Marty Rubin

146. “Don’t despair if you wake up feeling useless or empty. It’s not life, it’s not reality, it’s only your mind.”

— Marty Rubin

147. “Everything is so wonderful precisely because everything is so pointless.”

— Marty Rubin

148. “Never do anything for money you wouldn’t do for free.”

— Marty Rubin

149. “Spiritual claptrap is the real pornography. Let nothing human be considered divine.”

— Marty Rubin

150. “We’re all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.”

— Marty Rubin