Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.”

— Marty Rubin

302. “Ignorance is relatively easy to cure; stupidity is much harder.”

— Marty Rubin

303. “I used to sit in the garden and think. Now I just sit in the garden.”

— Marty Rubin

304. “There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. We leap into the dark only to discover how firmly we are rooted in the ground.”

— Marty Rubin

305. “The singing I like best is when I sing.”

— Marty Rubin

306. “Moths don’t need to explain why they’re attracted to the light.”

— Marty Rubin

307. “The unsaid rules every conversation.”

— Marty Rubin

308. “Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind’s roar.”

— Marty Rubin

309. “The only real and true understanding of life is to enjoy it.”

— Marty Rubin

310. “The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.”

— Marty Rubin

311. “I never met a dog lover I didn’t like.”

— Marty Rubin

312. “If you’re in the fault-finding business you’ll find me full of faults.”

— Marty Rubin

313. “Love means being able to confide in someone. The greater the confidence, the greater the love.”

— Marty Rubin

314. “What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can’t control.”

— Marty Rubin

315. “Humor is the salvation of those without hope.”

— Marty Rubin

316. “I’m not impartial. I like myself the best.”

— Marty Rubin

317. “Freedom without happiness is like pizza without the cheese. I don’t believe in it.”

— Marty Rubin

318. “Be satisfied. You don’t know how lucky you are.”

— Marty Rubin

319. “We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile.”

— Marty Rubin

320. “Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren’t tolerated.”

— Marty Rubin

321. “The greatest obstacle to true learning is the inability to say “I don’t know.”

— Marty Rubin

322. “Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.”

— Marty Rubin

323. “Kindness is never more necessary than when it seems futile.”

— Marty Rubin

324. “What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?”

— Marty Rubin

325. “I like to think serious thoughts but I don’t like to take them seriously.”

— Marty Rubin

326. “News used to come too late; now it comes too early.”

— Marty Rubin

327. “It’s hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.”

— Marty Rubin

328. “Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air.”

— Marty Rubin

329. “What people are looking for is someone to explain life to them. But there is no explanation and nothing to explain.”

— Marty Rubin

330. “The leaves on the water, the fog under the bridge. That’s what I believe in.”

— Marty Rubin

331. “The war against the cliche has become the new cliche.”

— Marty Rubin

332. “The way to live well is to feel intensely.”

— Marty Rubin

333. “Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.”

— Marty Rubin

334. “In love there is no standard, no norm, no right and wrong. There is only attraction and desire.”

— Marty Rubin

335. “Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.”

— Marty Rubin

336. “Digging, one finds more rocks than gold.”

— Marty Rubin

337. “Taste the cherries now while they’re ripe because later is always too late.”

— Marty Rubin

338. “From one dog all the dogs bark.”

— Marty Rubin

339. “You can’t stop the storm from coming so you better run for cover.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

341. “It is so relaxing to want nothing.”

— Marty Rubin

342. “Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.”

— Marty Rubin

343. “Fear of boredom is the most scathing self-criticism.”

— Marty Rubin

344. “We should not judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should leave them the hell alone.”

— Marty Rubin

345. “Never confuse being opinionated with having something to say.”

— Marty Rubin

346. “Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away.”

— Marty Rubin

347. “Were it not for some basic misunderstanding no two people would ever fall in love.”

— Marty Rubin

348. “Who wouldn’t live in utter despair if their sense of self depended entirely on the opinions of others?”

— Marty Rubin

349. “There is nothing more provocative than indifference.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin