Arthur Rubinstein Quotes

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.