Robert Breault Quotes

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

What are memories but dreams of a better past.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.