Marty Rubin Quotes

All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice.

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

Even blind alleys lead somewhere.

Where the signposts end, the trail begins.

Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love.

Grace rides inside the waves.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.

The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

When you act without feeling, that's the living death.

It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.

It is better to do something you like than to think about what you don't like.

I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.

Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side.

One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

One's duty is always and everywhere to be true to one's own experience.

Those who lack experience always have a lot of ideas.

Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.

Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.

We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say.

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

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

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

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about.

There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse.

The more one thinks, the less one sees.

Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.

There is no need to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?

Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.