27 Quotes by Theodore Isaac Rubin

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

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.

Have you considered that if you don’t make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. 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. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don’t know they’re happy, they’re not happy.

We can’t start over again, and it wouldn’t “be perfect” if we could. We can only continue.