Theodore Isaac Rubin

“The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

“I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”

“Guilt is the mafia of the mind.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

“Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”

“There is only one person who can you make you happy, and that is you.”

“When we are angry, we are always angry at ourselves.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

“The art of living is to be loose and ready. To be what you are, not what you think you should be.”

“Learn to live with uncertainty.”

“We must have the courage to be imperfect.”

“Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you out of yourself and make you happy.”

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

“You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do.”

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”