Robert Breault Quotes

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there.

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.