If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.


Marty Rubin

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Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
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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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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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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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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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Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.
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The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
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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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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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Get up and do something; don't think about yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Dance is the art closest to nature.
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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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All talk is small talk.
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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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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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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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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.
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The only way to live well is to feel intensely.
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Optimists think badly, but live well.
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Leisure is not always relaxation and it is relaxation that counts.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away.
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You can't dissect a dream without killing it.
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The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.
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Dissatisfaction: the feeling that something is missing when nothing is missing.
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There ought to be a law against people doing work they don't like or believe in.
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Life goes nowhere. We are the ones who have tried to get somewhere and made a mess of life.
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To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.
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An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
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Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
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Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
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You can always count on God to do nothing.
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Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.
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It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love.
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Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
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The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.
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You need spirit, fire, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
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You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
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I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.
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No one tells the truth about indifference. Indifference is the next best thing to love.
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Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
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Fortune favors the nonchalant.
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Ease is the sign of grace in everything.
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The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.
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There is more chance than choice in our decisions.
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Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.
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The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.
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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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