Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 9 of 10

401. “It is easy, too easy, to prefer books to people, since books are so much easier to understand.”

— Marty Rubin

402. “Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.”

— Marty Rubin

403. “My greatest pleasure is to travel down an unfamiliar road.”

— Marty Rubin

404. “A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

406. “Finding a constructive outlet for one’s wildest emotions. That’s what sanity is, that’s what matters.”

— Marty Rubin

407. “All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

409. “I’m on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.”

— Marty Rubin

410. “Belief, not lack of it, is the source of intolerance. The greater the belief, the greater the intolerance.”

— Marty Rubin

411. “Prosperity killed the American Dream.”

— Marty Rubin

412. “We’re all bewildered, but most bewildered of all are those who think they know the truth.”

— Marty Rubin

413. “Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas.”

— Marty Rubin

414. “I don’t try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.”

— Marty Rubin

415. “It is the method that makes it madness.”

— Marty Rubin

416. “A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.”

— Marty Rubin

417. “Speech is the beginning of love, touch its consummation.”

— Marty Rubin

418. “Read the philosophers and go mad.”

— Marty Rubin

419. “Who does not despair when they think without acting?”

— Marty Rubin

420. “Where would you be if you left all your cares behind?”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

422. “When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.”

— Marty Rubin

423. “The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy.”

— Marty Rubin

424. “Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought.”

— Marty Rubin

425. “When you’re playing at something and having fun, you don’t stop to ask yourself why.”

— Marty Rubin

426. “If you want other eyes to open, open yours first.”

— Marty Rubin

427. “There are 200,000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.”

— Marty Rubin

428. “Nothing calms an anxious mind like a little mindless entertainment.”

— Marty Rubin

429. “Accidents are built into the road.”

— Marty Rubin

430. “You can’t dissect a joy without killing it.”

— Marty Rubin

431. “Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.”

— Marty Rubin

432. “Men are always ready to fight; it’s tenderness that scares them.”

— Marty Rubin

433. “Success isn’t important. What’s important is that one is happy and doing things one enjoys.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

440. “One can steal everything from an artist except their talent.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin