Marty Rubin Quotes

Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.

Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves

What we invent, we become

Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers.

Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.

All lovers meet and love by chance.

A story has value whether it's true or not.

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is.

A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid.

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude.

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

oYu begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

Optimists think badly, but live well.

Because I took the sun for granted it shone on me.

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

We love those to whom we can tell our story.

Water flows because it's willing.

The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live.

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.

The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.

The earth keeps turning but it never says why.

It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.

A complicated idea is a confused idea.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

The hammer never complains of the noise.

You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.

Self-consciousness is hell.

It's during a storm that the best songs get written.

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

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

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

Revenge is starting a fire you can't control.

Nothing is more seductive than nothing.

When men set out to create order, they create only misery.

Man is a problem-creating animal.