Robert Breault Quotes

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.