Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things.”

— Marty Rubin

202. “Be vibrant and impulsive and don’t let your thoughts weigh you down.”

— Marty Rubin

203. “Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.”

— Marty Rubin

204. “The temptation is always there: to punish oneself. To make oneself miserable.”

— Marty Rubin

205. “We live in an age when knowing things has become a substitute for experiencing them.”

— Marty Rubin

206. “Trust your senses most of the time, your intuition some of the time, and your conclusions never.”

— Marty Rubin

207. “The smoke never returns to the fire.”

— Marty Rubin

208. “Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.”

— Marty Rubin

209. “Perhaps everything can be solved by a walk in moonlight.”

— Marty Rubin

210. “Meddling is the evil, not indifference.”

— Marty Rubin

211. “For the morning glory, eternity is a day; for the redwood, a thousand years.”

— Marty Rubin

212. “A blackbird doesn’t change its tune to suit the times.”

— Marty Rubin

213. “Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.”

— Marty Rubin

214. “Rational thought is trivial compared to affairs of the heart.”

— Marty Rubin

215. “Before you speak your mind make sure it’s really your mind you’re speaking.”

— Marty Rubin

216. “A perfect spring day! Enjoy it while it lasts because you don’t know what’s coming.”

— Marty Rubin

217. “The past lives through us. We are its legacy.”

— Marty Rubin

218. “Let us always be cheerful and never make the mistake of growing up.”

— Marty Rubin

219. “Apart from death, what else is there to grieve about?”

— Marty Rubin

220. “Cities get built out of poet’s dreams.”

— Marty Rubin

221. “The fog eventually clears itself.”

— Marty Rubin

222. “Winter gold: the sparrow’s footprints in the snow.”

— Marty Rubin

223. “Humor is heartbreak in reverse.”

— Marty Rubin

224. “Enjoying nonsense is one of life’s primal pleasures.”

— Marty Rubin

225. “A long leash is not freedom.”

— Marty Rubin

226. “When you fill a void, isn’t the void still there?”

— Marty Rubin

227. “You can curse the wind, but you can’t keep the leaves from falling.”

— Marty Rubin

228. “Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.”

— Marty Rubin

229. “There is no higher consciousness. There are just different ways of perceiving things.”

— Marty Rubin

230. “If my hand on yours trembles it’s because bodies never lie.”

— Marty Rubin

231. “Tears of grief and tears of joy are the same tears.”

— Marty Rubin

232. “Be what you are not. The true self is no one.”

— Marty Rubin

233. “Forget culture. Forget religion. Forget nationality. All that superficial stuff. Dig deep. and you will find that you are just you, and I am just me.”

— Marty Rubin

234. “The real miracle in human life is having emotions, being able to feel things.”

— Marty Rubin

235. “The woods don’t mind if I strip naked.”

— Marty Rubin

236. “Life goes nowhere. We are the ones who have tried to get somewhere and made a mess of life.”

— Marty Rubin

237. “Perfect balance is the art of falling gracefully.”

— Marty Rubin

238. “An aphorism is something that can’t be said any other way.”

— Marty Rubin

239. “There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.”

— Marty Rubin

240. “One word spoken from the heart is worth a thousand clever remarks.”

— Marty Rubin

241. “Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.”

— Marty Rubin

242. “Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.”

— Marty Rubin

243. “Don’t look for gold where there is none.”

— Marty Rubin

244. “Even the faded flower denies nothingness.”

— Marty Rubin

245. “Getting lost is part of getting there.”

— Marty Rubin

246. “When your house burns down you look for your lost dreams among the ashes.”

— Marty Rubin

247. “The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?”

— Marty Rubin

248. “From the body, pleasure; from the body, pain. From the body, life; from the body, death.”

— Marty Rubin

249. “Everything is irrelevant but this: to embrace life. To feel it. To savor it. To love it.”

— Marty Rubin

250. “Whatever gets you moving and out of your head is good for you.”

— Marty Rubin