Quotes from Marty Rubin

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

Dreams were the first movies.

A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.

A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land.

We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.

The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.

The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves.

Even the faded flower denies nothingness.

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

Dance is the art closest to nature.

The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.

Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.

The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.