Robert Breault Quotes

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg up —an answer

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.