Get up and do something; don't think about yourself.


Marty Rubin

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Language is a park where people meet.
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A poet is someone who never forgets that they were born naked.
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A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
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Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.
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Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.
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Tell me where the party is-I want to miss it.
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A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.
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No belief runs more counter to experience than the belief in a benevolent god.
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I know how to make myself happy, but I don't know how to make you happy.
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Water flows because it's willing.
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Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
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Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren't tolerated.
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Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
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Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
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Who gave fire permission to burn?
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A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.
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If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
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Words of the hero: "I am my fate.
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Ages and epochs belong to Time. Only the fleeting moment is eternal.
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Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
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Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
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There should be a law against doing work one doesn't like or believe in.
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One should show one's scars, not hide them.
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One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.
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The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
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It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.
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The wise oyster stays in its shell.
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Water flows because it's willing.
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Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
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Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren't tolerated.
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Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
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Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
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It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.
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If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
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Words of the hero: "I am my fate.
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Morning not only forgives, it forgets.
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It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.
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Ages and epochs belong to Time. Only the fleeting moment is eternal.
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Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
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There should be a law against doing work one doesn't like or believe in.
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One should show one's scars, not hide them.
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One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.
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The wise oyster stays in its shell.
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All explanations tend to be self-serving.
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What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?
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Never unite in a cause, only in love.
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Diseases are not cured by giving them a name.
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It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
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You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it.
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Don't try to remake the world in your image. That was God's mistake.
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The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.
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The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.
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The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching.
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Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.
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The least righteous people, and therefore the least dangerous, are the skeptics.
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Lice don't seem so small when they get in your hair.
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What I dread most: having opinions.
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Thirst is a language even the grass understands.
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Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.
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How wonderful life is! How sad to squander it in bitterness, self-loathing and hate!
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One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.
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I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.
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You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.
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In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
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Morning will come, it has no choice.
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The last goose in the column is flying just as high.
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I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
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The present moment is always the most important. The present moment is the only one.
MARTY RUBIN
The present moment is always the most important.
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Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
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You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
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My advice to you is to dance while you still can.
MARTY RUBIN
Dance is the art closest to nature.
MARTY RUBIN
One should dance while one still can.
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Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.
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Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.
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Don't let money or the lack of it rule your life.
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All talk is small talk.
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When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.
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The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
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There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
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Where the signposts end, the trail begins.
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The solution I always found was to go on living.
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A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.
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All extreme opinions consume themselves.
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Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
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I wasn't in Buffalo when it snowed but it snowed anyway.
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Events are singular, interpretations plural.
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The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.
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What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.
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Be unprepared, that's my motto. Let life surprise you.
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Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
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Anything but loving is petty.
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More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.
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Disappointments pile up. Then you have to throw them out with the rest of the trash.
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We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
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In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
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The heart is a silent witness.
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Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it.
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The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.
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There are no ugly things, only ugly thoughts.
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To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
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Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
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The answer to every 'why' is to ignore it.
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I can never conceive of yesterday as being anything but behind me.
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Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
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We're the slaves of our bodies. We don't have to be the slaves of our minds.
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If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
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A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.
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With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.
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Even the faded flower denies nothingness.
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The way to my heart is through your heart.
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Talking with someone I like is my idea of fun.
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A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.
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Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking.
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The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy.
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The aphorist writes in the gap between poetry and philosophy.
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When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.
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Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.
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I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.
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If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.
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The predictions of false prophets always come true.
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Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.
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Ignorance is relatively easy to cure; stupidity is much harder.
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Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome; stupidity is much harder.
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Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.
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It's stupid not to act stupid sometimes.
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People are intelligent; it is their ideas that are stupid.
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Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
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One is born an individual; one becomes a statistic.
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Mist around a mountain: all reality is there.
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First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.
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If you can feel it why do you need the words?
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Seize the day, then let it go.
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The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.
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When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not.
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Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.
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The tree that stands so firm on land trembles in the water.
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The water is always deeper than what it reflects.
MARTY RUBIN
The only way to live well is to feel intensely.
MARTY RUBIN
Optimists think badly, but live well.
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Leisure is not always relaxation and it is relaxation that counts.
MARTY RUBIN
What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.
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It is better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
MARTY RUBIN
It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
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Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.
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Batter Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.
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Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.
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A long leash is not freedom.
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When the train stays on the tracks you don't ask why.
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No explanation is ever as good as not having one.
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The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
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The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
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I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.
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Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
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The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
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We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile
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If you're in the fault-finding business you'll find me full of faults.
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Money isn't everything but you'll never convince money.
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The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.
MARTY RUBIN
Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.
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We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.
MARTY RUBIN
Propriety is a poor substitute for desire.
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Leisure isn't always relaxation and it's relaxation that counts.
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Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.
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Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
MARTY RUBIN
Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away.
MARTY RUBIN
You can't dissect a dream without killing it.
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The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.
MARTY RUBIN
Dissatisfaction: the feeling that something is missing when nothing is missing.
MARTY RUBIN
There ought to be a law against people doing work they don't like or believe in.
MARTY RUBIN
Life goes nowhere. We are the ones who have tried to get somewhere and made a mess of life.
MARTY RUBIN
To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.
MARTY RUBIN
An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
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Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
MARTY RUBIN
Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
MARTY RUBIN
You can always count on God to do nothing.
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Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.
MARTY RUBIN
It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love.
MARTY RUBIN
Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
MARTY RUBIN
The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.
MARTY RUBIN
You need spirit, fire, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
MARTY RUBIN
You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
MARTY RUBIN
I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.
MARTY RUBIN
No one tells the truth about indifference. Indifference is the next best thing to love.
MARTY RUBIN
Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
MARTY RUBIN
Fortune favors the nonchalant.
MARTY RUBIN
Ease is the sign of grace in everything.
MARTY RUBIN
The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.
MARTY RUBIN
There is more chance than choice in our decisions.
MARTY RUBIN
Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.
MARTY RUBIN
The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.
MARTY RUBIN
It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.
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The waterfall winks at every passerby.
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The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
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Grace rides inside the waves.
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The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
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You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
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Intellectualism is trivial compared to affairs of the heart.
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A chain grows weaker with each new link.
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